A short day trip, piggy-backing off a work visit. A complete tourist trap, but understandably so, even if just for the stone of the buildings. However, I had never seen the Minster displaying its beauty at night before, and it intrigued me that only the modern period has been able to benefit from such a display of light. Its architects and builders would only have received a taste of this during a full moon, and even then the effect and orientation of the light would have been completely different. It reminds me of Oxford as a town in a few ways – oddly placed, slightly small for all its claims, and of course hideous modern shopping malls slammed next to the most beautiful architecture. All with a splash of a river or two added to make it look pretty. Of course I’ll go back.
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