Wells, England

We have been travelling quite a bit around Britain......Manchester....Yorkshire Dales...Scotland..Orkney Islands..etc. Most recently, we just returned from the south western part of England....Bristol, Bath, Wells area in Sommerset. We stayed with a kind and dear friend, Sophie, who we met when she and another couple with baby were visiting Nigel in Vancouver. We always tried to insist that she join us for dinner. Well, she, in return, insisted that we visit her in Bristol! ....which we did.
Last Wednesday she took us to Wells. She went off to visit her father who was in the process of moving and we wandered off for a happy day of exploring.
This picture was taken in a town called Wells. Wells is famous for a well called St. Andrew's Well. Well, the story is that the town, the cathedral and the bishop's palace were all built up around St. Andrew's Well. Well's cathedral is huge with amazing architecture and sculpture on the front face. The vaulted ceiling is extremely high like all the cathedrals we have seen in this fair land. After visiting the cath. and walking on "Vicar's Close", said to be the oldest street in England, we wandered down the street and saw a smaller (but still large) church. A woman walked by and said "Oh that church is St. Cuthbert's and the ceiling is even more beautiful than the cathedral!" Just before we ventured across the street, we thought to take a picture. I took this one! and just as the ceiling in the church in the background is highly decorated, so is the space above George's head. Both that space and the interior ceiling were a riot of colours...actually George's head dress is more subdued than the church ceiling...... I won't say more.

Thus ends a simple but weird story of a hot day in Wells.