A Day in St Albans

Nov 10 we headed out on the Thameslink train to St Albans...again with London Walks. I think we are single-handedly supporting their business! St Albans is about 45 min north of central London, so it was a quick jaunt out in the morning. This cure little town has a lovely market on Sat, and was also a very important Roman city back in its hay day. They even have a Roman theatre. Its not the most scenic town, but we thought the history was interesting. Plus they have a tavern called The Cock...and another one called Ye Olde Fighting Cocks. Cant be a bad place, right??




We've been busy with work these days...my busy season is starting early because I am on a client with a Dec 2, 2007 year end. So the next month should fly by! Scott is settling in with his work too. We've also been seeing a lot of other CDNs, which has been nice.

We've also seen Ken, John and Christie alot, which has been great. Tomorrow we are heading out with Ken and John and going to Borough market and maybe a pub crawl. Should be fun!

PS: weird side note....they spell aging ageing here! Thats just wrong!

Saturday in Canterbury

Today we took a trip to Canterbury, again with London Walks. Its about 1.5 hours by train south of London, on the way to Dover. This is of course the town famous for Geoffry Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Scott actually knows the first verse or so in Middle English, very geeky!

We spent the morning taking the "scenic" route through town. As it turns out Canterbury is kind of grotty. Lots of Chav's and homeless beggers, weird for such a cute small town. The buildings are amazing, but filled with Starbucks and Subways. I hate that.

We had lunch at a little Italian place in the main square and then headed into the Cathedral. Abolutely huge and beautiful! All the Cloister buildings are beautiful as well. The Black Prince's tomb is in the cathedral, and its also where Saint Thomas Beckett was killed.

Again it was another grey day, so the pics are not the greatest, but here are mine: