UK Road Trip, October 2017
In October of 2017, I flew from Dallas to London Heathrow to begin a week of meeting and training customers. Matt picked me up at the airport and drove me around all week. After spending a week UK, we flew to Bucharest, Romania for another week of work in Constanta, on the Black Sea coast.
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We stayed for a few nights in Reading and then drove on to Salisbury to stay another few nights to visit Boscombe Down. Here are photos of Salisbury, the old square filled with shops and old pubs. The square is at the entrance to the old part of the city where cars are blocked off making it easy to walk around
Some photos of the Salisbury Cathedral. One of eight copies of the Magna Carta is at the cathedral. The cathedral also has Britain’s tallest spire. It was too late to go inside while I was there, but the outside was very impressive.
Village of Cheddar at the Cheddar Gorge. Cheddar Village is where cheddar cheese was first made, the cheese is aged for months in the caves in the Cheddar Gorge which keeps the cheese cool all through the year. There are also caves in nearby Wookey Hole (I just like saying that name). Also, nearby is the small town of Shepton Mallet, where I had been to visit during a trip to the UK in the 1990s.
Special thanks to Matt and Jacinta for taking me in and sharing their house for the weekend and also for taking me touring on their weekend off. We went through the Cheddar Gorge to Wells to see the Wells Cathedral and the Bishops Palace.
Most Texans don’t know this, but historically in the UK having a cathedral within your town limits makes you a city. So, Wells bills itself as “England’s Smallest City”. There are very large towns, but there are a few small places designated as cities because of their old cathedral and Bishop.
The photos below are from the Wells Cathedral and the Bishops Palace next door.
