Peterborough & a Long Walk

This has been a pretty average school week.  Unfortunately we have classes today (Friday) to make up for the Ireland trip next weekend.  Anyway, I did get to take a pretty fun trip on Wednesday afternoon to Peterborough.  We rode in a double decker coach which was fun except the wind was intense and so it was swaying pretty bad on the top level as we made are way down the A1 (interstate).  When we arrived, we walked around the city centre for a bit which was nice.  It was very similar to the shopping centers at all of the other cities in the UK we have previously visited.  We made sure to stop in at Poundland to pick up a few essentials.  I got a cool UK flag passport holder which was nice because the paper envelope that I previously have been using is on it's last leg!  We then went to the main attraction of the city that truly was impossible to miss, the cathedral.  It was magnificant and unfortunately I do not have any photos of the inside because you weren't able to take any :(  It is a significant point of interest though because the tomb of Katharine of Aragon is housed within the majestic walls.  Furthermore, the tomb of Mary Queen of Scots formerly was in the same cathedral.  It is so cool to get to see first hand things that we are learning about in our British Studies class!  Yesterday (Thursday) my English Novel class took a walking trip while we discussed the novel Jane Eyre.  We took one break at The Gregory pub and cafe to talk about the reading and then some of us went with our professor on a walk about the town of Harlaxton.  It was beautiful.  We walked through a residential are, along the canal, and also through hilly and green pastures.  One really neat thing about England is that their are footpaths leading through their fields so it is possible to walk about the farmland.  It was neat because we got to use a "stile" like Mr. Rochester and Jane do in the book.  All in all, the walk was 7 1/2 miles-->quite a trek!  It was very nice though.  Okay, well I need to get ready to go to my final class for the week so until next time :)