Arriving in Canterbury, Kent

This was my first visit to Canterbury since 2008. After flying from Shannon to Stansted, and getting various trains down, we finally arrived in Canterbury.

The first thing we really saw was the old Norman church (above) near the Dane John Gardens.

As we made our way towards the High Street, we passed the red-bricked almshouses below:

Had almost forgotten about those.

The building below was some kind of Real Ale bar now, it'd been something else before (I lived in Canterbury 1999-2003 and worked the summers there 2004-2008 too), but I cannot remember what:

We passed St. Peter's church, set just off the High Street:

And on the High Street, we saw the old pilgrims' hotel:

I went inside this building many years ago, it contains a very old fresco.