Leicester; Sunday, 28 April, 2013

After a slightly disrupted night’s sleep, almost exclusively put down to eating too much good food, I compounded the issue by having another large breakfast.

Having checked out and left my bags with the hotel I wandered over towards the Cathedral to take in one of the most recent additions to Leicester’s tourist attractions. Looking at a car park might appear a little bit of a strange sight, but given it was under this car park that archaeologists discovered the remains of the last King of England to die in battle just a few months earlier it puts it a bit more in context.

Nearby is the medieval guildhall, and there they were holding an exhibition on the dig and the background to both Leicester at the time and why a Kings remains ended up where they did.

From the guildhall I wandered over to the Newarke Houses Museum and Gardens to have a look around them, and then, as they had a sign advertising it was open for just that day, the Castle hall building.

Having stopped for a very late lunch I wandered back in the direction of the hotel to take in the New Walk museum and Gallery.

By the time I left the gallery, shortly before it was due to close, there was just about time to have a late cup of coffee before heading back to the hotel to collect my things and then wander back to the station, past the statue of one of Leicester’s more famous son’s and another Travelling Tom, Thomas Cook.