Medieval Southampton

Martin and I are here in Southampton, prior to boarding the Norwegian Jade tomorrow to cruise round the Norwegian fjords.

The taxi driver who picked us up, when asked what are the tourist sites to see in Southampton said ‘nothing it’s all industrial’ and when the hotel was mentioned said ‘hood you have your flea powder’ ...

Anyway, to prove his wrong we had a wander round the city centre this afternoon and it has to be said it’s an alright city, with a nice old town, hence today’s blip of the Merchants House.

The Medieval Merchant's House is a restored late-13th-century building in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in about 1290 by John Fortin, a prosperous merchant, the house survived many centuries of domestic and commercial use largely intact. German bomb damage in 1940 revealed the medieval interior of the house, and in the 1980s it was restored to resemble its initial appearance and placed in the care of English Heritage, to be run as a tourist attraction.

So all in all, Southampton is not too shabby a place ...scratch, scratich, itch...