Our last and final field trip on our amazing trip over the pond was to Canterbury cathedral. We took a short train over, and when we arrived, stepped out into the small town of Canterbury. You wouldn't know by just looking at the town and it's size that people made pilgrimages there. It's a quaint, small town with mostly tour groups wondering around making the same journey as you. When we arrived we met up with our tour guide, a women who was the kind of grandmother you expected to have as a child, who was very sweet and quiet. She led us around the small town showing us different aspects of the place as well as the cathedral. The cathedral its self was stunning. The way the architect designed and executed the building was spectacular. Now, just a heads up, this was not my first time visiting this cathedral. That being said, when we walked in, I was still in as much awe as I had been the first time. Nothing compares to the beauty that the cathedral holds within it. We toured the cathedral and had time for lunch to roam around the town before meeting up to go into the Canterbury tales. Now this is where it got interesting and a bit scary. Upon walking into the Canterbury tales it is obvious that it is a tourist trap for people who want something more to do with the Canterbury tales other than the cathedral itself. There are many scary figures in the tour that talk to you and weird smells that make your head hurt. Needless to say, my group and I had fun, but were also quite horrified. I think Chaucer would be rolling in his grave if he ever walked through that. I fell like his tales deserve much more respect than some crappy attraction that scares even people in their 20's. All in all I wish we had done Canterbury as one of our first field trips and left places like Stratford or Oxford for towards the end since they were much more enjoyable.
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