Gavin and I decided to continue our English cathedral tour (only those accessible by car, in a one-hour radius from London..) by checking out Salisbury town and cathedral. Thankfully, the weather cooperated and we were able to walk through Old Sarum as well.
We actually started our day in Old Sarum, which has been in existence for over one thousand years as a Iron-Age hill-fort, a Roman settlement and an Anglo-Saxon cathedral and castle. Apparently, when construction began on the current Salisbury cathedral, they appropriated all the stones from the cathedral at Old Sarum for the new one. The bonus in our trip there was a group of school kids reenacting a Viking raid... hilarious!
Then we headed on to Salisbury for lunch at an extremely old public house followed by a stroll through the cathedral to view the Magna Carta. We ended the day having a brew in an old mill in a neighbouring town that had a great view of the Salisbury Cathedral from across a field of sheep. You just don't get more British than that. All in all, a great day out in the country.
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| beginning our day at Old Sarum.. |
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| the aforementioned old cathedral site (sans building stones).. |
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| and the aforementioned children storming the castle. |
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| view of Salisbury from Old Sarum |
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| our lunch locale.. there was not one straight line in the place! |
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| Salisbury Cathedral |
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| hmmm.. not sure what this means.. |
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| Gavin and Chewie, testing the waters at the Old Mill |
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