A weekend in Canterbury

Somewhere in between of Whitstable and Hernesbay

Hello,

I know I haven't updated my blog for a long time. That is because I was away, in India. I understand that many of you would like me to write about that. But the things that I have seen and experienced there during 3 weeks cannot possibly be captured by a camera or described in words and put in a blog entry.

So last weekend I went Canterbury to visit a friend, Elena, who was my coursemate once. She lives (with 3 Lithuanians and one Georgian!) in a city centre, just above the Greek taverna that she works in. On Saturday which was very nice and sunny we walked around Canterburry a bit. It is a small cozy town but it is full of people (kind of tourists). Anyway it is nice to be in a place where you can reach everything on foot. We managed to get in the famous Cathedral (symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion) for free - normallyit's 9 pound per person. We did that in the sneaky Lithuanian way, hehe - we just went in through some other entry (it is a big area with walls, gardens, etc.) where a sign "no entry" was hanging. The Brittish have this strange believe that people just blindly follow signs no matter what....

The next day we went to Whitstable, another small cozy city on the coast of the North Sea. It has lots of nice beach houses. But for me, Lithuanian, it will always feel odd when there are houses on the beach. So later we set for a journey to the nature. It was quite spontaneous - I bought a nice postcard with castle on the cliffs by the sea and then we found out that the place in the picture is close by. We took a bus to Hernes bay and from there we walked, as the castle was already seen from there. Nevertheless, it took us about 2hours to walk there. According to googlemaps, it's almost 4 miles one way. But we also had to go back :) was fine with me, as I do a lot of walking during work.

And now I am leaving for Wales in a minute.

See you!

There is a chair hanging in the air above the boat. It was used to check if somebody is a Witch. Yes, really, from those times.

Cathedral gardens

Gardens

This house has sth to do with Dickens. Canterbury is his hometown. As well as Orlando Bloom's.

Whitstable seaside. Houses are like in Nida.

Hernesbay. You can see the Castle at the end. In reality it looked much closer than in the pic :)

The castle's remains. Ah, it was actually a church, as we found out later.

The pic for my postcard was taken somewhere here, just in autumn I guess as everythings so brown.

Pleasure for eyes.

I didnt swim but I let my feet to feel the water. Not too cold.