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Monday 4 May – part six: “have we entered some private recital?”
We headed back into the cloisters, taking in all the detail in here.
We made our way back out of the same open door we’d walked in through, as we’d seen an open door into cathedral, and assumed that was the entrance.
In we went, and the organ was playing “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles, which was a bit surreal. It finished a moment after we entered, and the organist rightly got a massive round of applause, but I must admit I was thinking “have we entered some private recital?” Thankfully, we hadn’t, and that seemed to be the end of it. Now whether it was a practice, I have no idea, as when we walked around, there weren’t actually that many people in there.
We headed first to the back of the cathedral, which seemed to be very traditional in design. Remember this for later…
This however was a bit unusual. You sort of looked up and were like
We came across this piece of artwork, which I have to say didn’t do much for me. I found it all a bit weird and slightly freaky.
Then we entered the front half of the cathedral, and to me, this was where things became a lot more modern. I don’t mean the building itself, I mean what was inside it. See what I mean from these photos…
We had a quick browse in the shop, then we made our way back into the cloisters, which gave us an opportunity to take in more of the detail in here.
The cathedral is just beautiful..... the parts without the modern touches, at least! I can understand wanting to keep updating, but the juxtaposition just doesn't look like it's working that well.
The cathedral is just beautiful..... the parts without the modern touches, at least! I can understand wanting to keep updating, but the juxtaposition just doesn't look like it's working that well.
Hmmmm, can't say I love it any more from the description....
Guess I'm a bit of a purist, and think there should be a more Biblical purpose to art inside a cathedral?
It's beautiful inside. Well, except for the "modern" pieces. I'm sure they're beautiful too - to somebody. Seems kind of out of place though. The ceiling of the cloisters and the church itself are amazing. Love those old ones like that!
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Hmmmm, can't say I love it any more from the description....
Guess I'm a bit of a purist, and think there should be a more Biblical purpose to art inside a cathedral?
I am not religious in any way at all, but I have to say I agree with you, otherwise you could surely just put anything inside a church (or other religious building for that matter) and that's a slippery slope...
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Monday 4 May – part seven: a taste of Japanese in Norwich
We headed back out through the door we’d originally come in through, and made our way towards the back of the cathedral, assuming we could walk all the way around it, but we couldn’t. Ok, time to retrace our steps then…
We made our way back across the village green we’d walked past earlier, as that was the only way we could see to get to the front of the cathedral, and thankfully this time our plan worked.
We found some stunning tulips here – they’re my favourite spring flower.
Obviously this is the way we were supposed to enter but as far as I know, they don’t charge for entry, so as I said to Mark, it was probably just a case of we missed some visitor information along the way somewhere…
We headed out of the cathedral precincts, and were immediately greeted with this…
There was certainly plenty to see here. However, our next priority was lunch, and I’d already identified a Japanese restaurant called Shiki that I knew was near the cathedral, and thanks to Google Maps (what did we do without these apps? ) we found it easily enough. They asked if we wanted to sit outside, at the bar or on a sharing table, and we took the latter option. It was only a table for four, and a couple did sit down with us, but the table was more than big enough that really it didn’t feel like you were sharing.
It was a very expansive menu, and although we were tempted by the sushi lovers platter to share at £30 ($45) for the two of us, eventually we found the lunchtime bento boxes towards the end of the menu, which seemed to be very good value, so we both went for those. With these, you decide what combination of items you want in it – I went for salmon teriyaki and sushi…
… while Mark went for the chicken katsu and the vegetable sushi option…
With it, we also got miso soup, which was excellent…
… and we both opted to get California temaki, or hand rolls, as they’re more usually known. This came with avocado, cucumber, crabstick, homemade omelette, mayonnaise, and flying fish roe topping.
I have to say everything I had was excellent. I knew this place was well rated on TripAdvisor and I could see why. We also got here just at the right time, as it filled up after we arrived, and eventually the only seating left was outside. It’s certainly a popular place and I can understand that.
We were quickly done with our meal, and I was just comfortably full, so we didn’t bother with dessert, and instead paid the bill, which only came to £33 ($50), which I thought was really good value, given what we’d had here.
Shiki
Appetiser 8½ 8½
Entrée 9 8½
Service 8 8
Atmosphere 8½ 8½
Value for money 9 8½
Classic Britain is what I see in those village pics. Just how I'd picture it! Except I'd picture a pub for lunch, not a Japanese place.
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it didn't feel like it was to me either.
there was - here you go: 
but as far as I know, they don’t charge for entry, so as I said to Mark, it was probably just a case of we missed some visitor information along the way somewhere… 
) we found it easily enough. They asked if we wanted to sit outside, at the bar or on a sharing table, and we took the latter option. It was only a table for four, and a couple did sit down with us, but the table was more than big enough that really it didn’t feel like you were sharing. 
It’s certainly a popular place and I can understand that. 
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