Canterbury (Like the Tales!)

After visiting Leeds Castle, we went to the town of Canterbury. We went to the cathedral, ate lunch, walked around aimlessly, then found the Canterbury Tales wax museum and tour.

Here are some notes from BU... The main site is Canterbury Cathedral. This is the successor to the church St. Augustine built after the conversion to Christianity in 597. After the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170, the cathedral became the center of one of th emost important medieval pilgrimages in Europe. This is the basis for the stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales.

The town had a lot of cute shops and was bustling with tourists. We stopped at a place called Hotel Chocolat where they sell slabs of chocolate and truffles. I really like the wax museum a lot because it is completely automated and in sync with your headset, so you all listen in whatever language you need and the tour tells you when to go to the next room, the wax figures move around and tell the stories. It was a really neat experience, and I loved listening to the stories.