This is the Manor House at Mount Grace Priory. Nice little shack isn't it? For scale, click on the picture and see if you can find Greg standing in front. This historic site was near our Coast to Coast walking trail, so we took off through the woods and came into the Priory over a stile near the back of the property. There's a huge ruined priory behind the Manor House with one restored monk's cell (with amazingly good plumbing for medieval times -- fresh running spring water to each cell, and toilets that drain out and around the perimeters of the campus).
This is a small part of the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park in our neighborhood. The Albert part. The rest consists of hundreds of statues honoring famous artists, writers, mathematicians, architects, and others who contributed to the splendour of the British Empire.
Stonehenge, of course.
Looking up at the Salisbury Cathedral was dizzying.
The White Tower, the heart of the Tower of London. In the building you can barely see just behind it are stored the Crown Jewels, which we were not allowed to photograph but were welcomed to hang around and examine as long as we wanted and ask all kinds of questions. When you see these, you will understand why they have the elaborate ceremony of locking up that building every night as they have for almost a thousand years. We had attended that "Ceremony of the Keys" a couple of days before our second Tower visit.More soon.
