Rochester

Categories: buildings-and-cities

Tags: cities, church

Date: 24 July 2008 21:50:10

To sunny Rochester to see our curate get vicared in Borstal.

For a small suburb surrounded on three sides by a saltmarsh, a motorwpay, and a prison, Rochester is a surprisingly nice place!

And Michael Nazir-Ali doing just about his last formal Anglican thing before not going to Lambeth - which in fact isn;t at Lambeth but just down the coast in Kent in a place he could get to with a bus-pass.

Really badly put-together new developments by the river though. Unimaginative buildings wrongly positioned. If I had time I would rant on them...

rochester_cathedral_6304 rochester_cathedral_6306
rochester_cathedral_6307 borstal_6314
medway_6311 borstal_6323

rochester_cathedral_6302 St Matthew's, Borstal St Matthew's, Borstal

I was going to post links to my photos of Cardiff but it has just taken 2 hours to sort them out and if I don't leave the office in the next ten minutes I'll not get home till after 11pm. And then I will be late for work again tomorrow and stay late again and... :-(

A picture may be worth a thousand words but even with digital cameras its easier and quicker to do a thousand words rthan one decent picture!