22 Nov

Today the winds are much stronger: blowing at a steady 35-40 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph! It is difficult to keep standing but exhilarating at the same time. And the colours of the sky and the ocean are beautiful:


(forgive the blurry blobs in the shot, they are raindrops!)

Andy measuring the winds, standing on top of the cliffs:

Bit blurry, as too hard to keep camera still in these winds.

As it now starts raining heavily, we give up on standing in the wind and rain, and decide to leave the coast and head home via Salisbury Cathedral:


(as you can see, the weather was much better here than at the coast)

It was built in just 38 years, between 1220 and 1258! Astonishing that they could accomplish this in such a short time!
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral

It houses one of the 4 remaining copies of the Magna Carta (signed in 1215AD) which has come to symbolise of the rule of law in England, protecting the rights of the individual. Its basic principles have been used in the constitutions of the USA, the former USSR, Japan, Germany and many Commonwealth and other countries.

There are some really ancient graves and gravestones in there:



Here another shot of the cathedral:


and one of the many gargoyles that adorn it's walls: