canterbury

For Tami's birthday we decided to get away from London for the first time and do some quality tourist stuff. Canterbury is not to far away and everybody we spoke to told us it would be great place to visit, and it was. We took a train cross country on Saturday morning and pulled into the hostel, which was, as most hostels are, not great! Perhaps to much time at the 19th Hole has spoilt us both.
Canterbury is an awesome town with nearly the entire town centre only for pedestrians. The town still has a large section of the old city wall that use to surround the village, and is also home to the very impressive Canterbury Cathedral.


The cathedral visit was awesome, my first time inside a cathedral. There was a formal choir practice with the organ playing at full blast - pretty impressive.
The town was awesome and shopped till we couldn't any more. Just about all the shops that you'll find in central London are here, but they are so much more accessible.



This photo is of a freezing Tami on her birthday, in her first semi-winter outfit. We refer to this photo as "die winter-meisie". We missioned into town with the mistake of thinking the sun shining means warm weather. She is wearing a couple layer of tops and my 'puffer'bodywarmer.
On the Sunday we went to Dover to visit Dover Castle and do the War Time tunnels tour. It was freezing! The wind was pretty strong and let me tell you, on top of that hill there was more than a slight breeze. It drove the cold air straight through our best fleece's form K-Way and Cape Storm and chilled us properly. Here's a photo of Tami in front of the main gate of the castle and one of us on the top. Don't let the sunshine in this photo fool you, it only lasted for about 3 minutes!