Canterbury street walking

 Canterbury's streets do not lack historic buildings. Maybe not of great importance, but still engaging enough

This is the city's museum. Bit of a hotchpotch of a collection

Canterbury even has a castle, but a very ruined one

This is St Martins Church, which claims to be the oldest church in the English speaking world. Parts date back to Roman times. Unfortunaely it was closed - only limited opening times. Well given how few people were in the massive cathedral, a small (albeit historic) parish church is going to struggle for a congregation, or even visitors.

I think this is the Roman part....

The place has city walls, these skillfully photographed to exclude the car park below...

A pleasant bar called the Foundry, where I had a very decent pint. Suspect the food would have been good too. But very underutilized.

Beautiful gardens down by the river - extremely well kept

Canterbury Roman Museum and some punting

Two other attractions of Canterbury for me are the Roman Museum and the chance of a river trip on a punt.

So to start with, the museum. This is clearly another small museum that has had a fair bit of money thrown at it to make it attractive to visitors. And make up for the lack of real artefacts to display. So it is big on tableaux, and to be fair they are not bad at showing how folk lived nearly 2000 years ago in a Roman town.

This artists impression of the Roman town is actually about the most impressive thing to see

The museum also incorporates the floor of a Roman house

There are some surviving mosaics, but the most striking thing is the warping of the floor from centuries of subsidence

And so to the punting.  £20 for about 45 minutes of punting and commentary. I didn't feel robbed