Our good friend Jenny, who regularly goes to Canterbury, recommended, as a place to stay, The Lodge, which is inside the Cathedral Close, and a matter of thirty or so yards from the side entrance to the Cathedral, and perhaps seventy yards from the main entrance. I took the above photo from our room, just after we arrived at about four o'clock on Monday afternoon. Car parking is just outside the lodge and therefore inside the cathedral close.
Above snap is of Ann about to go into the town via the main cathedral close gateway not long after we'd settled into our room.
I remember being told at school, that in old double jettied town houses, if two peopled leaned out of the opposite windows of the top floor rooms it would be perfectly possible to lean across the gap and shake hands with each other; and looking at the above photo, I would think it very likely.
The cathedral is largely Norman, and there are some interesting (if fragmentary) early murals, and some glorious early stained glass.
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