The Shambles York

We drove Shirley to Harrogate and had an early lunch at Betty's Tea Rooms, a Yorkshire institution http://www.bettys.co.uk/bettys_harrogat e.aspx. It was like stepping back into a past era. The service was so quiet and polite and the food was delicious.

We’d paid for a full tank of fuel when we’d picked the car up so that we …

Over the weekend I went with a tour group to York, Fountains Abbey, and Hardwick Hall. I will divide up each blog post because that is easier for me to type and you to read!

Our tour group met at 7:30 Saturday morning to get on a bus that would take us on a 4 hour trip up to York in very northern England. (May I point out that it takes …

Yesterday I arrived late into York so wasnt really able to do much so I just walked to a local restaurant had a nice curry for dinner, watched a movie and went to bed. I was really lucky and had a whole 4 dorm bedroom to myself and therefore private bathroom as well.

This morning I got up early and checked out (thank god for luggage …

Saying farewell to Scotland, we stopped at the boarder of England & Scotland for a traditional photo opportunity. We were soon on the road again and our first stop was Alnwick, which also lends its name to Alnwick Castle (or maybe the Castle lends its name to the town?). It was to be only a short stop to have a wander through the town and its …

The May bank holiday weekend turned out to be a fairly big one. The team headed to York initially for the day but then for the night as the drinks flowed during the evening. We walked the city walls and medieval streets, including the Shambles. For a laugh we jumped on the theme park-esque ride at the Jorrvic centre....just as 'awesome' as I …

Our final day would be a visit to the city of York before driving home. It took an hour to drive in to York, but we found a town that was ideally suited to exploration on foot. Our trusty travel book suggested a walking tour of the centre and it took in The Shambles tiny cobbled shopping street, York Castle and finally York Minster which we visited …

... and allowed you to shake hands with the neighbor across the street on your topmost floor! The most interesting street in the old town is the Shambles.  This was the butcher’s quarters of the city.  Meat hooks still hang below the eaves ...

... a pub for every day of the year, so it wasn't hard to find one. After our veggie burgers we walked The Shambles, an old street in York with crooked timber built chocolate shops and tea houses.  I had read that Shambles comes from an old Anglo-Saxon ...

... time and that was sad. Matt: Middlesbrough was fairly uneventful yesterday; we just did a bit of shopping. York is just amazing. Walking through the Shambles is like walking through a street in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Its very surreal. Gnomes must have ...

... for a cafe and a coffee. The city wall was too frosted over for us to go up for a walk. Went and had a look at The Shambles instead — a well preserved medieval street. Had a pork pie from a shop there. York has free tours every day and we hurried ...

... did play with that ball, instead choosing to run from it every time it was turned on. I think Mum had to bury her. The Shambles is as it sounds. A small narrow street with the buildings leaning over onto the road. Similar to Amsterdam, but instead of ...

... seen so many. We didn't do any of the touristy stuff, just had lunch and a spot of shopping here and there, an amble down the Shambles and a few of the lovely gift shops near the Minster before coffee and then back to Rotherham. I forgot to take the ...

... actually getting to any of the buildings we wanted to visit, we wandered the streets of Yorks old city. We made our way up the Shambles, a road that used to house all the butchers and as the name suggests is a hotchpotch of crooked shops on a crooked ...

... long history, when Roger de Clifford was executed for treason against Edward II and hanged in chains from the tower walls. The Shambles - A great area of old style shops on cobbled streets.  Yorkminster - An incredible Cathedral that is undergoing ...

... tourists all trying to make their way to God only knows where, it was an absolute feast for the eyes, ears and nose.  The Shambles was great, everything I had hoped it would be, and it lived up to its reputation.  With its tiny little two ...

... the Castle Museum with its recreated Victorian streets and gaol, and the heaving shopping streets around the area known as The Shambles. With the England vs. Wales Six Nations rugby on, we noticed the huge concentration of police outside pubs in town and ...