22 November ST ALBANS Tuesday

Our day started with a little bit of drama as we walked about 100 yards to the bus stop. We came across a little old husband and wife who had both fallen on the roadside.  We stopped along with a couple other passersby to help, as the husband had a nasty gash above his eyebrow.  She had slipped and he had tried to help her up, nevertheless, the ambulance arrived and all was well, albeit shaken.

We immersed ourselves in the history of St Albans, with our first stop st St Peters Church and it's pretty stained glass windows.  We then found the self-guided walking tour and our next impressive sight was the only medieval clock in England.

We also found a couple of Hobbits' doors:

Next was the magnificent St Alban Cathedral, built in 793 around the tomb of St Alban, who was a Roman soldier, beheaded for sheltering a Christian priest.

We followed on to Verulamium Park, so steeped in history with it's Roman ruins from AD 256-270.

On our walk, we came across many ancient tudor style buildings with crooked beams and mantels. Of course, I had to spend a penny in the oldest licensed pub in England, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks.

Lunch was extremely non-St Albanish and unquaint at the Slug and Lettuce, and may have consisted of a decadent Chocolate Puddle pudding for one of us ; )







We ended the day back in Harpenden and a warming Indian dinner with Peter, Liz, Uncle Tony and Aunty Verna and later, back at the Silver Cup pub, we were sent off to bed with the second ringing of the bell.