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[jojojojoanne]

Salisbury and what was it like?

[snags]

Plain.

[New Judge]

Wiltshire or Rhodesia (aka Zimbabwe)?

You might be safer in Rhodesia at the moment as I understand the Wiltshire town is still being decontaminated.

[alavahalf]

Less tourists around these days .. Novichok has not done it any favours.

[mccfluff]

there's a kebab shop on the high street, avoid. otherwise its a nice place, druid outfit is mandatory.

[Buenchico]

Salisbury is a very attractive city, with plenty of historic buildings, decent shopping facilities (with rather more independent traders than you'll find in many British cities) and plenty of good pubs and restaurants. I'd class it as "well worth a visit" but it's not full of tourist attractions as, say, York is.

https://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/salisbury

[Flonska]

Before the Novichok outbreak?

Yes - spent a weekend there. Stayed at the Old Mill, Harnham. Very enjoyable. Have a look at the tourist website:-

https://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/salisbury/things-to-do

There are lots to do and see - incl visiting the Cathedral and Ted Heath's place, Arundells

https://www.arundells.org/

[4candles]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral

//Since 1549, the cathedral has had the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom, at 404 feet (123m). Visitors can take the "Tower Tour" where the interior of the hollow spire, with its ancient wood scaffolding, can be viewed. The cathedral also has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain at 80 acres (32 ha). It contains a clock which is among the oldest working clocks in the world, and has the best surviving of the four original copies of Magna Carta. In 2008, the cathedral celebrated the 750th anniversary of its consecration.//

[New Judge]

The trouble with cathedrals is, seen one, seen the lot. They seem to come in three sizes: small, medium and large. Their architecture, whilst interesting, is not particularly varied. The only real difference is who is buried in their vaults and then you're only looking at flagstones rather than actual cadavers.

I must say I was taken in when I visited Winchester Cathedral for the first time last year, only because of the story about it almost falling down in the early 1900s and the diver bod who spent ages in waterlogged foundations propping it up with bags of concrete. Other than that I could have been in Canterbury, York or almost anywhere.