On Sunday, three friends (Hannah, Yuriko, and Tash!) and I came down to my flatmate Alice’s hometown of Deal in Kent. It took about and 1.5 hours by high-speed train from St. Pancras International station. Deal is the red dot on the map that’s pictured above. As you can see it’s right on the shore of the English Channel and it’s absolutely beautiful. It’s a sleepy little town with a long shoreline of pebble beaches and a seemingly endless view of the channel. It kind of reminds me of suburban parts of New Jersey. We had some great Chinese food, and anyone who knows me knows my strong distaste for Chinese food. We enjoyed an easy night in, especially since I was feeling pretty ill unfortunately.

Tuesday was great because we spent the entire day in Canterbury, which is about 40 minutes away from Deal. We took  on the shopping on the high street and it was all cobblestone. There were also lots of beautiful medieval gates and a huge medieval wall. We had some great lunch at a little cafe, continued on shopping, and then went to see the Canterbury Cathedral, which is the seat of the Church of England. It was so beautiful, with a lot of similarities to Westminster Abbey but on a much grander scale. Afterwards, we had some more dinner and spent the night out and about. We took a cab back to Deal and almost watched Avatar…it stopped working for some reason but we decided this was a sign to go to bed since it was around 4am.

I’m here until tomorrow evening and I’ll keep you updated if anything awesome happens.