Bury St Edmunds
We enjoyed a day trip by a train to Bury St Edmunds, a market town in the county of Suffolk, England. It was quite a nice and vibrant town. We took a leisurely walk in the town centre, and visited the ruined abbey surrounded by the Abbey Gardens, and St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
The name Bury has the meaning "fortress, castle". Edmund was a king of East Anglia who died in 869, killed by the Vikings. He became venerated as a saint, and his shrine made Bury St Edmunds an important place of pilgrimage.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral is quite bright inside because of white supporting columns and window frames, and also cleanliness.
We had a lunch at a pub near the rail station. It wasa really nice pub. It's one of our joys to go a local pub, when we travel to somewhere. A Tea Room is OK for me, but my husband prefers a pub.
The name Bury has the meaning "fortress, castle". Edmund was a king of East Anglia who died in 869, killed by the Vikings. He became venerated as a saint, and his shrine made Bury St Edmunds an important place of pilgrimage.
The ruined abbey is in a huge site. I thought the site is like a more ancient ruin like Stonehenge or a stone circle than ruined abbey. It was interesting that two of the ruins seem to be holding up a finger of both hands, and also there was duck-shaped ruin. I felt comfortable in this site.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral is quite bright inside because of white supporting columns and window frames, and also cleanliness.
We had a lunch at a pub near the rail station. It wasa really nice pub. It's one of our joys to go a local pub, when we travel to somewhere. A Tea Room is OK for me, but my husband prefers a pub.
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