This weekend celebrates Heritage Open Days where many of Coventry's historic sites are open for free, including many sites which aren't usually open to the public. We heard about this in one of the local papers and it mentioned the Lunt Roman Fort, which had been on our 'to-do' list, so that's where we went first.

The fort is near the airport, near the village of Baginton, and is quite small. The outlines of buildings are still visible but have been covered in concrete so no roman brickwork is visible anymore. A replica granary building has been erected and houses displays and models showing what the fort would have looked like.

This afternoon we headed into town to the tour of the old Priory Undercroft. This is part of the ruins of the original priory building from the 12th Century and isn't normally open to the public. The guided tour was very interesting.

Underneath the ruins of the old cathedral, one of the crypt chapels was open. This was used for services during the war, after the cathedral had been bombed. It was very small so they can't have fitted many people inside. We also went into the new cathedral to take a look around. It was very impressive and larger than we were expecting.

On the way home we popped into another old building - the Old Windmill pub on Spon Street. They were holding a Cider Festival so we had a couple of drinks as we were passing.