Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ Nice day off in Canterbury
Drove up to Canterbury right after dropping T2 at school. We shopped for nearly an hour, well more than half an hour, before we thought "shall we chuck this in and go to the pub?". But we had the car, so had to be a bit sensible. We got the bits we needed, planned out the rest, and had plenty of time even before lunch, so we went to Eleto Chocolate Cafe as a) they had mulled wine b) it was indoors and c) it was open. A lot of places not open yet, and while the christmas market stalls were getting lined up it was a bit miserable to stand outside. Mulled wine was good, they put a cinamon stick and a slice of orange in it there, we don't bother at home.
From there we searched for actual pubs, somewhere to go for a half and think about holidays. We picked up a holiday brocher from Trailfinders. Struggled to find a pub open, my preferred options of the Pegasus, Unicorn, Thomas Tallis all not. We nearly settled on a Wetherspoons as at least it was open, but thought that was a stretch too far. So we finished the last bits of shopping instead and by then it was midday, so we headed to The Buttermarket. It was very nice, they had a winter ale on in there and a plum porter, but just a half for me as I had to drive later. A half of each.
We had a fairly healthy lunch in Veg Box Cafe, but mine was a mushroom wellington wrapped in pastry, very nice.
I was not too full after, so a) had a cake in there (it's all vegan) and b) got vegan lasagne and loaded fries from M&S to take home for tea.
We were back in time to collect T2 from school, there's a bonus.