My new friends and I will eventually be going to Paris and Ireland. I am holding off on several small trips in order to take them with people that come to visit me.

The lovely town of Canterbury served as a great tourist location for a day and a shopping center many other days. Some of my friends (Sam and Allison from Michigan S.U. and Ellie from Leicester) I have exhausted tourist agenda.

(Angie, Allison, Sam, Me, Ellie)

We started the tourist day off with a visit to the Canterbury Cathedral, its the largest in England and free for students. Unfortunately there was a graduation taking place at the same time so we did not get to go in the Nave (the main area) but visited other parts of the Cathedral such as the Great Cloister, Presbytery, and Becket’s Crown.

After we took pictures of the Cathedrals grandness and admired the massive stain glass windows we went to an Italian Cafe about 3 blocks away. This was not out of the ordinary for us. We love the cafes here which are privately owned and very quaint.

(Allison, our coffee blogger and I)

We returned to the Cathedral for an Choral Evensong/ Mass was mostly sung by the young boys from St. Edmund’s school up the road. It was about an hour long and a was a good rest for our legs.

Cathedral at night

Location: Canterbury, Kent