Winchester and Dorset
We had borrowed our car for two days, and after returning from the Cotswolds, Johnny and I made another trip, this time to the south. Our first stop was the city of Winchester, a name that carries some emotional weight for me as I have resided at Winchester Road for the past two years. The city is sometimes described as a former capital of England, but it is now generally agreed that the royal court was mobile during England’s early Middle Ages. Associated with Alfred the Great, Winchester owes its present layout to the king’s reconstruction of the city to render it more defensible against Viking raids.