The rest of the time in the UK

This is in Winchester station. It's a lovely advert for cider.

Lots of railway bridges

The Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth

When we travelled from the airport, we stayed in the nearby town of Saffron Walden. It's a picturesque place which is rather ruined by the traffic. The window is in the parish church. It has a picture which you can hardly see of Margaret of Anjou, who was Henry VI's wife.

The parish church has a very high steeple. This is what Wikipedia says: 

Saffron Walden is home to the largest parish church in Essex. St. Mary the Virgin dates mainly from the end of the 15th century, when the previously existing and smaller church was extensively rebuilt in flint. In 1769 it was damaged by lightning and the repairs, carried out in the 1790s, removed many of the medieval features. The present spire was added in 1832 to replace an older ?lantern? tower. The church is 183 feet (56 m) long and the spire 193 feet (59 m) high, and is the tallest in Essex.

This is a charming modern sculpture near the parish church.

Lewes, Southover Grange, monument to the madrigal 

Southover Grange

Lewes Priory ruins

Proiry gardens

lavender

bumblebee on lavender

hyssop

dill, I think.

oregano

This is a lovely winswept plant on the seafront in Bexhill

Dinosaur egg sculpture

More sculptures in Bexhill

In Bexhill it was dull, but in Brighton, the weather was so good there were even people in the sea!

Our last day, we went for a lovely walk near Ringmer.

Cambridge

Cambridge is impressive. It's full of tourists (like us) who have come to see its picturesque old college buildings.

Part of King's

I think this is St John's

Posters everywhere for end-of-term productions

Swans and cygnets

Traffic, bicycles, punts.

Winchester

I've been in Winchester for two weeks. Well, not quite Winchester but Sparsholt College, which is out in the Hampshire countryside, about eight km from the city.  Last Sunday, being up and ready, I walked along the narrow lanes to get to the cathedral in time for a ten o'clock service; a really special event where a number of men and women were being ordained as deacons. It was a real pageant of colour and ceremony, in which two  (at least) bishops, an abbot, a lady in a judicial wig took part. The acts included the bishops and abbot washing the feet of the ordinands (people who were being ordained) I've never seen anything quite like it!
Winchester cathedral is rather special. Part is Norman, part Gothic.

This bit is Norman,

with massive columns and rounded arches

Here is some of the Gothic stuff

On the outside, the Norman bit

The Gothic West window

The font has rather familiar carvings:

they are so like the ones we see in the cloister of San Juan de la Peña or the cathedral of Jaca.

the cathedral close

I think this is the old cloister

In Winchester High Street, statue by Anthony Gormley, I think

In Winchester Great Hall, Queen Eleanor's garden.

 I expect it's an Eleanor falcon.

A curiosity I noticed approaching the city

Quite an old postbox. Edward VII