Phase II of Operation Be a Better Tourist was to skip out to Canterbury to check out the spiritual centre of England - Canterbury and it's cathedral. Going to the world's most important Anglican church was of course balanced by the other religously observed English weekend activity - that of drinking booze in large glasses. This duly performed, Sherry and I popped ino the cathedral for a lazy 3 hours of wandering around the interior and grounds of this huge, and hugely historical, building.
Like so many important Christian buildings, it is the amount of attention (certainly unsees today) paid to the detail of it's construction which is so striking - and with so many things English, the layers of history and legend behind it all. Seeing Thomas Becket's headless statue on the corner of the facade was one particularly poignant moment - a physical representation of one of the most infamous deeds in English history, within a couple of feet of you, does help put some perspective on places such as this.
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