Let's Chat...(Canterbury)

When you go to a Catholic college and live in dorms named after religious icons, archbishops and other religious figures, you tend to forget that there is a meaning and a story behind the name. I had come to associate names like Becket and Augustine with parties, dorm life and geography, but certainly not religious life or history. Or maybe that's just me. Jason certainly pays more attention than I, so was not as blown away by Canterbury as I was. Notwithstanding, we were both incredibly smitten. Maybe it was the sunny day, our thoughtful nature, a beautiful train ride through Kent...whatever it was, we were hooked. In 1904, Virginia Woolf said, "there is no lovelier place in the world...and I have seen Venice too." Maybe, maybe not. But there's just something about Canterbury. Apparently Geoffrey Chaucer thought so as well. He wrote a book about the place you might have heard of -- The Canterbury Tales.