Well actually, no. It didn't rain (except for a little drizzle at the end of my visit). Apparently, my home town had monsoon weather all day, so I did right by not being there!
I hopped on a train. HS1 to St. Pancras, and from there, there's a train to St. Albans in Hertfordshire every 15 minutes or so, and the journey is a scant 20 minutes. What's not to like?
The fact that there is not an inch of flat land anywhere there, is what's not to like. It's uphill all the way to the cathedral, then a steep drop down to the river, then uphill back to the cathedral, downhill to the station, then up and over the footbridge to the platform. Well worth it though.
I took 117 pictures today. How many I actually use, will depend on how many I need to tell a very complex history.
The only disappointment I had, was that the wet stuff started before I got to the Roman city. By then I'd walked about 1.5 miles, which meant I still had another 1.5 miles to do to return, and to do the roman area justice, would have taken about another mile........in the drizzly rain...........with aching legs.........
So at some point there will be a second visit
I'm going to wander off now, and start writing the piece, but if I were you, I wouldn't bother looking at it until tomorrow at least. This is going to be a long one
