Cathedral, transport museum and Shakespeare

Coventry Cathedral

The damp weather had arrived and we were pleased to have done the more outdoor-type activities yesterday.

We drove to central Coventry and parked at the NCP Belgrade multi-storey capark.  When we realised that the app pricing was much better, we decided to go have a quick lunch and get the app during that time, then return to re-park the car.

We stumbled on a branch of Greggs and once again had a good feed.  After re-parking the car, we walked to Coventry’s famous cathedral.  The old cathedral was destroyed after the German bombing of the city.  Its shell sits alongside the modern spartan new cathedral.

I found the artwork at the main altar and glass façade to be a little eerie.

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Transport Museum

From here, we walked to the Coventry Transport Museum.  It was a pricey place for what it was, with not much interest in the subject.  There were lots of old bicycles, motorcycles and cars but finished with land speed record vehicles or rocket-cars, as I call them.

Most vehicles have a connection to Coventry, once the heart of the British motoring industry.  The museum seems to immortalise the glory days of the bygone era, having been pushed into obscurity by the Germans, Japanese, the Koreans later and soon the Chinese.

While it was called the Transport Museum, there was nothing about sea or air transport.  It is essentially a museum dedicated to Coventry’s history in land transport.

Shakespeare’s birthplace

We picked up a sandwich from Gregg’s to snack on before driving to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace.  We found the house but didn’t have sufficient interest to pay GBP20-26 for two entry options.

The town had lovely Tudor-style architecture and that probably was more enjoyable to me than the birthplace of someone who wrote literature that I didn’t study.

We finished the day with a short walk from Julian’s to their local fish and chips for an awesome fry up of haddock and cod.