Tuesday morning, March 16. Our hotel offers the usual English breakfast plus Continental buffet. As many of you will recall, the traditional English breakfast includes eggs, toast, bacon or sausages, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, and tea or coffee. Plus, of course, jams and marmalade. The Continental buffet includes various cold cereals, fresh (or stewed) fruit, juices, croissants, and sometimes Danish pastries. This hotel also includes porridge and Scottish kippers. Delicious, but all a bit much for me, as I usually just have my coffee, juice, and my Ancient Grains cereal with milk. Today, however, jet lag finally caught up with me. After breakfast I felt so tired and had that kind of "dizzy, if I don't go to bed I'm going to fall down" feeling that comes with jet lag, so I went back to bed, and Peter went out to walk for miles around the city. Actually, he went for a walk and then to The Collection. Eventually, I woke up and we went to the Cathedral - which is utterly gorgeous and amazing. What is particularly impressive to me, is the sheer immense size of the building, plus the fact that it fell down at least twice because of earthquakes, burned once, the central tower fell down, and the roof burned - and every time it was rebuilt BIGGER and more impressive than before. What dedication people must have had to pour their resources into it. We have booklets that we bought, but you can also find much information and many pictures online. After lunch and a break for tea and coffee, we walked around in the Castle - first built in the late 11th century, just after the Conquest (1066) by William the Conqueror. Not much remains of that early building, but it was fascinating to climb up onto the castle walls, and walk around looking at the city far below.
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