Tour of Canterbury and the Cathedral

Before I get to how beautiful everything is here, let me write a few notes for myself on Thomas Becket whom I have to write a 1 page summary on for British History:

*Under reign of Henry II
*Post of Archbishop falls vacant
*Henry tired of the church having too much power appoints his very good friend TB (whom does not want to position) to priest and then Archbishop of Canterbury
* A quarrel errupts
* TB's loyalty changed from Henry to God and the Pope (this infuriates Henry)
*Henry is frustrated at this turn of events and threatens TB, TB then threatens to excommunicate Henry
* Legend has it one night surrounded by his supporters Henry in a drunken stupor exclaims in frustration "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
*Several of his followers having not recently been in the good graces of the king, take matters into their own hands
* they head to Canterbury, meet with TB and they argue. They leave but they assure TB that they will be back
* They come back the next day in the evening weapons in hand.
*They hack TB to pieces, Henry is forced to do a pentence and assassins are forced to flee the country.
*TB then becomes a saint and a martyr
*Church gains much capital


Ok now onto the tour. The town is gorgeous, the Cathedral is breath-taking. There really aren't words to describe it... It's one of those things that no matter how well someone can describe it, the actual sight is a million times better, my pictures don't even do it justice and there are lots of pictures.

All the intricate details and the architecture, it is just mind blowing...

By the way I had a thought this summer... that since I love architecture and this semester being here in England I was going to be able to see all this wonderful architecture that I think maybe I will base my senior collection off architecture. The only problem becomes that they probably will want me to focus on a specific period of time and I'm not sure whether I would find that too boring or not as interesting as maybe focusing on a place and basing my collection on influences of all kinds of architecture throughout different time periods... but we shall see. I still have time to think of that.

As I said a moment ago I did take many pictures and they will be posted. Tomorrow I also plan to go into town and buy some post cards as well. :)

Tonight is a Pirate themed party so I'm going to wear my rainboots which actually being black are pretty similar to pirate boots (just not as flashy), dark wash skinny jeans, white shirt with a frilly collar, and Idk what else, kind of wish I had an eye-patch or a black bandana and I know a lot of people will go buy things, but if you have to buy things for every party it's bound to get fairly expensive and I rather spend my money on gifts, things for myself, post cards, and travel.

Speaking of Travel, it's so expensive but I think I will at least take one trip outside of our planned ones and probably going to Paris with Liz and Adi in Nov. And I think I really want to go to Scotland, but 230 pounds seems so ridiculous.

I'm sure it will all work out. :)

Look for the pictures on facebook....