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York Slideshow
York
Travel Blogs from York, United Kingdom
Breakfast: Like a pig at a trough
... confirmed that while I have an accent while speaking Spanish, it definitely WASN'T Irish! Vindication!!! We walked atop York's walls - that was probably the highlight of the tour but overall, the tour was kind of boring. There ...
Off to York
... and hot drinks at a nearby cafe while we orientated our selves and prepared for the walk to our b&b. The centre of york had limited access to cars and narrow windy streets with lots of speciality shops, lots of people about all with umbrellas. ...
Beers, Ghosts, Cathedrals
... we wandered around the city for a couple hours checking out all of the cobblestone pedestrian streets and the absolutely beautiful York Minster cathedral. I like to say if churches were this gorgeous in the U.S. maybe I would actually be more religious. ...
Got to York!
8.48pm M: ... and we're ready for bed! We're at Matt's place, he has a really nice flat. Been walking around York's walls all afternoon - pretty epic. York is beautiful we've decided, even under the rain. Very green and castle-y. Oh and bricks ...
Yorkshire Wales Gloucester Wells Winchester
... choir at which they remembered all the donors over the centuries who have given to the Minster and its maintenance or reconstruction. York was, of course, a material Roman settlement and York has lots to show of this and also its Viking past. Focal point ...
All around York
... goes well it is a diesel and very light on fuel. From Joans we went to her brothers Peter another cousin who lives at Eastlington near York. He lives in the country and has a nice home but it was cold and raining. By the way watch still works. On the ...
Oh the Grand ol' Duke of York
... Amazing what privilige and wealth some people are born into - it doesn't seem right but we couldn't help enjoy the beauty of the gardens. Definitely a highlight of York for Shaun and I. Off to Shaun's birthplace tomorrow - Carlisle! Karen ...
Preparations
Well folks I've found my passport and the e-ticket, made a start on the packing, and purchased (on a credit card, of course!) the Australian dollars and travellers cheques. I'm making endless lists and jotting down reminders on post-it notes which ...
Easter in York
... be find for me to come and stay with them over Easter. I had such a brilliant time in Pocklington, which is a small village outside York, and Abby's family were so friendly and open to me staying there. York have a massive Minster, which is a big Gothic ...
York
... the 11th century. There are three miles left of the original wall in different parts of the town, we only walked 1.5 miles. York also has a HUGE church, we were planning to go in and look around, but they sprung it on us, its 9.50GBP to get ...
Last stop before Scotland
... and there were roses everywhere we stopped! By dinnertime, we decided to call it a day and pulled into a Holiday Inn Express in York. What was nice about this place was that their beds had Tempurpedic matresses! I had never slept on one ~ and ...
First weekend trip outside London
Finally travelled on brilliant GNER service to York to visit the old town and National Railway ...
Trains and Castles
... the original walls. with the (20 The Emperors Hadrian, Septimius Severus and Constantius I all held court in York during their various campaigns. During his stay, the Emperor Severus proclaimed York capital of the province of Britannia Inferior, ...
Today's the day
Departure day has finally arrived. Can's sleep, can't do much at all really, too excited!! Looking forward to seeing Bertt and NamasteOm tomorrow.Judging by their travel pod it's going to be an amazing, silly adventure! I am going to try uploading some ...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
... . Not nearly as cheap as prebooking a flight but very stressless I must say. And guess what? They have good cheap wine .... Arrived in York about 1am on train number 3 and woke up pleased we had made the effort. Hamish and Jaye went to work and I ...
York Day 2
Hi Everyone, Today we said we would take it easy and then, well, we just kept going! We started the day with breakfast (since this is a b&b) - ok Kathy, had the beans, mush and tomatoes plus the bangers... (also had bubbly &squeak the ...
sabato e programma settimana
... pero li porteremo a una "ghost walk" in giro per i posti inquietanti e "stregati o infestati dagli spettri" di York. Come vedete non hanno molto tempo per annoiarsi: io ho letteralmente tartassato lo staff del college perche facessero del loro ...
Day Trip to York
Headed Noth today to visit thecity of York. It is surrounded by the old Roman city walls, with the main attraction York Minster. The Minster is the largest Gothis Cathedral in Europe and has an amazing amount of stained glass. The day started ...
Yorkshire Dales
... and, fun though it may be, we decided to keep going rather than drive back out of town and join the scrum. Arrived at York OK, checked in, then walked the half mile to the city wall and gate. Basically we did the perimeter of the town, leaving the centre ...
York Day 1
Left Thursday night 2/19 Came back to Edinburgh 2/22 Emily and I went to York for the weekend just because we could :) There was the Jorvick Viking Festival that weekend, so we figured what better time to go to York than during the Viking ...
May 23, 2011
Awesome.
I've just booked somewhere to stay in Cairo for Wednesday and the hotel is number 25 July Street...THAT'S MY BIRTHDAY!! ...
York.....the land of James Herriott
... when we get home we will post some pictures for you to see to prove it to you. The hillsides are covered with sheep--the United Kingdom has 40 million sheep....... In the a.m., we visited Floors Castle, just one of the many that belongs ...
York (as an alternative to Kiev)
... tour of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor site. However, the government has cancelled all Chernobyl tours until mid-August, so instead I went to York. We had Megabus tickets, but the bus turned out to be a train departing from an obscure train platform and we ...
The Last Day in England
... vegetable and cheese pasty. Much better pasties here than in Portsmouth. Then headed back through the Shambles to York Minster. It had similar features as the Salisbury Cathedral but had a lot more 3-D objects in the walls. ...