Friday, June 25, 2010

Up the lift to the first floor

First two nights in Exeter and what a lovely city. It's like being in Italy. I have to translate from English to Canadian for Ron and he blindly hands over money. We walked the city wall and saw A Roman bridge. Today was Lamas Fair and we watched a small parade of school children and a few adults dressed in clothes from various centuries, or invasions. Romans, Vikings, Medieval, early and mid nineteenth century Victorian uniforms. The cathedral here is amazing. It was built in the 12th century, and rebuilt a hundred years later in the gothic style. it made me think of the book by Ken Follett, whose name I can't remember. There are real faces all along the side. The faces of al the saints inside were defaced during the Reformation. I took a photo of a carved panel depicting the birth of Jesus in which all the saint's heads had Ben lopped off, and the lone widwife retained her head. Itwillmake a great cover for my book, if iever write it.

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