Devon
As England shut down once again, this time for the funeral of Her Majesty, we took the ferry back to Portsmouth, once again with perfect sailing conditions, and made our way to Winchester where Trudi and I were leaving our nice wee group with driver Dan, who was fantastic, to meet our next group with driver Samuel. We got to Winchester Cathedral just as the funeral service had ended. What a pity. It would have been wonderful to sing along with the hymns in the funeral in one of the largest and grandest cathedrals in England. Anyway, it was still a deeply moving time to watch the procession, and to cast an eye upwards at the remarkably tall pillars of this amazing place. What a masterpiece of construction so many hundreds of years ago. The experience with Samuel as driver was certainly not the same as with Dan, who was calm, careful and precise in every manoeuvre. Things didn't start well with a rather disrespectful comment about The Queen. You can have your own ideas about t...