Return To Canterbury

In past visits, after the boat, we have always tried to stop in Dover, but we always miss the exit and wind up in Canterbury, 20 miles or so up the road. About 2013, we learned that Canterbury is actually preferable, if you're in a camper and are of the camping savage bent like us: Canterbury has the only aire de camping-cars in the UK, at least that we know of. It's in the New Dover Road P&R, which I know now better than the back of my hand. 3.5L per night, plus all the facilities, spartan as they are, plus unlimited travel on the local bus system for up to six persons. Such a deal. Plus the P&R is little more than a mile from the city center. For this and other reasons, we always seem to spend a couple/three days in Canterbury before setting forth into the rest of the country. This time it was four days as 1) we needed to do the wash, 2) I needed time to re-activate that part of my brain that keeps left but looks right, 3) free wifi, and 4) charity shoppes (!) which we haven't seen (except Emmaus in Paris) in months, and 5) the days in Paris and after had been pretty intense, and we needed a rest, and time to plan, especially before setting forth in a new land and culture (seriously).

Such a deal

Canterbury street scene; I am sure I have blogged abundantly about Canterbury
in previous years

Part of the fun is watching other tourists getting fleeced

Canterbury's beginning to seem a bit too touristy now; and
we have pretty low standards in that regard

Anyhow, there are always the fun old bits

Sadly, it'll cost you 20L or so just to get inside the walls
and see the Cathedral; we've seen it enough, and like other
English cathedrals (Wells, Winchester, Worcester and
that's just the W's) better

Getting re-acquainted with British shopping

Marveling anew at what's becoming of the Queen's English

And then there's the Beaney, the coffee shoppe in the beautiful old  building that
houses the TI, the city library, art museum, etc.; and some nice people

And the opportunity to plan the next seven weeks' travel