Cathedral falcons

Spent the day in Salisbury on Saturday meeting with some good friends for a spot of lunch, we had some great Indian street food and then headed over to the cathedral where we'd booked to do the "tower tour". It was a really interesting thing to do and even though the weather was abysmal we soldiered on in true British style, determined to ignore the rain. The tour lasts a couple of hours and you get to wander around inside the roof void of the main part of the building and then ascend up inside the 400ft spire. Most of the woodwork inside the roof is still original and in exactly the same configuration as when it was assembled 800 years ago, it was amazing to see! We were all struck by how pristine and beautiful the building looks when viewed from the nave, as it was designed to be, but how rough it looks behind the scenes, lot's of very large pieces of wood, some the size of whole trees holding everything up. I took a picture looking up the inside of the spire (below), all of this woodwork would have looked exactly the same back in the 1200's when it was placed here.

One extra little bonus happened when we went outside onto a ledge at the top of the tower, the resident Peregrine falcons treated us to a little flying display, such magnificent birds. Anyway, I managed to video a little bit of it although I only had my phone so it's not brilliantly clear (see video at the top of the post.) A great day out and a real workout for the glutes (400 steps up to the top!)