{"id":3995,"date":"2018-09-25T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T05:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2018-09-25T05:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T05:59:25","slug":"durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, were we not off on our travels yet again?\u00a0 This time to Durham, in the company of family chums.\u00a0\u00a0 Stand out moments included an ad hoc napkin party hat event, and someone’s face when his son forgot to buy him a sausage roll from the bakery.<\/p>\n

The first three images were not taken by me, photography was forbidden in the Cathedral, so these are from postcards.\u00a0\u00a0 These are the windows with which I was particularly impresssed.\u00a0 The Cathedral itself is most interesting, it houses the tombs of the Venerable Bede and Saint Cuthbert, but in addition it presents\u00a0 modern art, and an extensive panoply of historical touchpoints.\u00a0 It took us three goes to get in there, but fair play to an institution which has been an active centre of worship for 10 (?) centuries, you have to wait if there are services.<\/p>\n

Since, amongst many other goings-on,\u00a0 [Hey! Freshers’ Week!!}\u00a0 it was open doors weekend, we were able to visit the Chapel of the Holy Cross<\/a>, which is quite one of the most affecting, beautiful and simple chapels I have yet visited.\u00a0 Leaving aside any discussion on religion, it was a place of contemplation, with an immediate link to Saint Margaret, well known to Dunfermline.<\/p>\n

After that, we enjoyed much silliness over dinner, and if the journey home was made interesting by some appalling lapses of manners on behalf of our fellow travellers, it allowed us to chunter quietly whilst acknowledging that no real damage was done, except perhaps to the reputation of a large country to the west.<\/p>\n

Oops, nearly forgot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Last Supper, window in Durham Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Millenium window, Durham Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rose Window, Durham Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Freeman’s Quay ironwork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Owengate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cathedral square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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University buildings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cathedral 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cathedral 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, were we not off on our travels yet again?\u00a0 This time to Durham, in the company of family chums.\u00a0\u00a0 Stand out moments included an ad hoc napkin party hat event, and someone’s face when his son forgot to buy him a sausage roll from the bakery. The first three images were not taken by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-people","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}