The narrator Geoffrey Chaucer is in the Tabard Inn, in Southwark, where he meets a group of "sundry folk", who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the Shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.
The narrator Geoffrey Chaucer is in the Tabard Inn, in Southwark, where he meets a motley crew of middle-class folk from various parts of England. Coincidentally, they are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the Shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.