11 December 2010 Bishop’s Palace Gardens, Chichester

One last outing on our last Saturday in the UK: a train ride to Chichester, a small city in West Sussex that dates back to Roman times. We visited the 11th-century cathedral, constructed on top of a Roman building, and we walked most of the old Roman walls that encircle the city. But the most delightful–and surprising–part of our visit was the Bishop’s Palace Gardens, home to several mature specimen trees, including the one that Sam is staring at: a sinewy, trunk-twisted Dawn Redwood. Yes, a Redwood in Britain. The UK is really a surprising place.