Saturday by the river

By the river. The River Stour. The Great Stour they call it. It's a few metres wide but it's still a river. It runs through. Through the friary grounds. Between the two friary buildings. Under the Greyfriars building (the remaining building of the original friary buildings).


Tour boats come up the river - the tour guide (and rower of the boat) sits in the bow giving his version of the history of Franciscans on this site. Occasionally one of us will wander past giving local colour to his story. I just heard him say that the friars living here now are not the original ones. As the original ones came in 1224 that is perhaps just as well.