We have discovered that you can get cards anywhere and everywhere in this country...apparently there must be an incredible increase in card usage throughout the world to justify the proliferation of card shops... one has just opened in MEASAM for goodness sake... we have hairdressers, real estate, and express supermarkets..a high st that pretty much consists of 10 shops... and one of them is a card shop!...still at least our emergency card needs are now covered. (as an aside, we went into 2 card shops yesterday to buy.... well,.. to buy cards obviously... which kinda explains the need for the card shops i guess... but nevertheless... we had longer queues in the card shop.. than at any other place we visited all day... ok.. enough about card shops. :)
Off to Coventry...and it was soo much better than i expected, i had heard of it being rather downtroden..dirty and unpleasant.. infact not the case at all. we began at Spon st, which is a street made up of old 13th-14th century buildings that have been dismantled and rebuilt n the one place, it was incredible to see these fabulous oldd shops ..Nic is (unsuccessfully) trying to appear not freezing in the pic above.
We wandered through the markets and then found the cathedral... Wow!!.. what a stunning building yet again, the ruins since the war are still standing and was just a glorious place, we also poked our head inside the current cathedral.. just awesome place, we also saw some cute squirrels awwwwwwwwwwww :)
From Coventry on to Kenilworth Castle... what a surprise.. this was even bigger than the other castles, it was used to house Elizabeth the first on her tours around..it was actually a series of castles built in the 12th..then 14th.. then 16th centurys again lots of pics and lots of superlatives, but really just lots of fun.
12th century
14th century
damn,. silly computer wont let me do it.. ill load some more in another post :)
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