Day Trip to Cantebury and Dover

Dragged ourselves out of bed on a Saturday morning and headed for Beit Quad to catch the bus, and we were really made to catch it, as most of us did not manage to wake up! The result of too much CS, PS and chilling out on Friday evenings.

First stop was Cantebury, after 2 hours of steaming bus ride. This is one of the oldest cities in England, but what it is most famous for is that the Archibishop of Cantebury is like the head of the Church of England. Since part of the church was closed for service when we arrived, we strolled along the streets first.

Yongcong and Sebastian. We were at a courtyard of a little chapel along the streets of Cantebury. Despite it being just another chapel, its grounds were well maintained, and beautiful. It would have been quite a sight in summer with the flowers in bloom.

We finally got to enter the church after lunch. Here, we have Eunice, Marvin, Sebas, me and Lester posing with an Xmas tree in the Cantebury Church. In my opinion, I actually felt that the interial (Gothic) architechture was the most impressive I had seen, despite having been to Notre Dame. However, as it survived for 2000ish years, it had been through various wars and occupations, as well as the rule of several sadistic kings. Hence, it had been torn down and rebuilt innumerable times. However, that doesn't take away the stunningness of the entire structure.

Moving on, here's Marc, Jacqueline and me within the Cantebury Church grounds. We ran out of time though, and we were unable to continue exploring the rest of the church. We headed back to the coach, and rolled on towards Dover

Structure-ly, I felt that Dover Castle was more impressive than Windsor, although I have to agree with Jwu that Windsor was more grand and well maintained. (Maybe that's because the Queen sees that as her occasional residence of Sojourn). We charged up the drawbridge, breached the castle walls and then, sat up there for a photoshoot. Here, we find the whole bunch of us upon the Dover Castle wall. After that, we explored the tunnels and battlements.

We hanged around within the castle till closing, and we trooped around the castle towards the edge of the cliffs. There, we find a WWII 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun! Woah~ We also managed to catch a view of the white cliffs from where we stood, and oh well, it wasn't as impressive as what it was made out to be.

Bus ride home = zZz.