I've driven past this city so many times but never done more than stop at the Services on the way up and down the country. To be honest, I knew nothing about it and wasn't expecting a lot.
What a pleasant surprise!
For a start, I didn't know Exeter had suffered badly at the hands of the Luftwaffe, by far the worst bombings there taking place on 4th May 1942. Thankfully the Cathedral and the many ancient buildings around The Green escaped fairly lightly compared to other parts of the City.
It was a coolish day when we started our walk round but soon found some historic bits and pieces of interest and we started to be rather impressed with the way the ancient had been preserved amongst the modern.
We especially liked the way items found during digs at the site of St Catherine's Chapel and Almshouses were preserved in perspex at the site.
The buildings around the Cathedral Green were impressive to say the least and we even felt we might break our usual rules of not paying an admission price to a Cathedral and paid the £4 each fee, as the age concession there is 60, which meant I could take advantage of it too. So glad we did, Exeter has to be in my top 3 of UK Cathedrals, at least of the ones I have seen and that's a fair number.
Then, when we came out of the Cathedral, we have been given totally different weather, it was like Summer, so we decided to sit outside one of the Hotels facing the green and have lunch, in the sun.
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