{"id":3579,"date":"2023-04-29T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T22:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2023-04-29T23:59:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T22:59:33","slug":"a-canterbury-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"A Canterbury Tale?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK, that was weak, even by my standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am, of course, talking about Canterbury Cathedral, which turns out to be tricky to photograph, at least with a smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I’d been told the entry price ( still not sure I understand how that works for a functioning cathedral ) was quite high, but I paid it anyway on the basis of “May as well, it’s a famous building I’ve actually heard of”, figuring that I’d spend a bit of time there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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this one does have a “Cathedral rolling in heavy storm” kind of vibe <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I ended up getting three hours of entertainment out of it, because there’s so much to<\/strong> the place. There’s an enormous amount of history, and reconstructions, and repurposing. I’d assumed that the cathedral was basically one big churching space, but kept finding little sub-chapel areas as I wandered around, both in the upstairs bit & in the vaults below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was even one of those grassy area surrounded by vaulted walkway things which I’ve seen in movies & TV, so that was fun to wander around in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were some folks doing guided tours, but I wasn’t sure whether they were a join in & tag along or a paying patrons only sort of thing, so I tried to stay out of their way. And after a while, used earphones and a rain noise app to muffle the narration, when it got a smidge distracting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One interesting overhead bit, if I understood it correctly, is that Thomas Beckett was murdered there, and eventually a shrine was built which was later destroyed by orders of the king, and there’s mention of the shrine, but aside from one part of a stained glass window, nobody ever described what the shrine looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time and money well spent, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and I got a scone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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