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June 8th 2009

Published: June 8th 2009

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EllenW

Shambles

Little sign describing the Shambles

This is my first ever travel blog entry. The purpose of this entry is two fold: to explain myself and to have a practice blog post. (I have just realised I sound ALOT like I'm writing an English essay - target: lighten up)

Explanations

I accidently created this account back in January when I was trying to comment on one of Beth's posts. Which doesn't bode well for my ability to use this shibaz but I'm sure it'll all work out fine. Ok so the main point of this blog is so that you people can see what I'm up to. I should be able to update this fairly regularly since I am reliably informed we have internet access at Camp. Although this is obviously dependant on time off etc. I do actually have another blog. But it's the official Camp America one, so I don't think people who aren't on the system have a great amount of access to it. Also (and I might be wrong on this point) I don't think I'm able to upload photos onto it either. Anyway if you're massively interested you should be able to find it here (This also serves as

The Shambles

a test for adding links to this post.)

York

Yes OK My First entry is from York, not so exotic. But it's really just a trial entry. And anyway York is a beautiful city. Everyone should go there. I even have some pictures which I'm going to attempt to add onto here as a trial. We were only really in York for about 24 hours, it's not a massive place but there's lots more to do than what we did, museums and what not. Also lots of concerts.

We spent Saturday actually in York doing all the touristy things such as walking along some of the old City walls and shopping. There's this really awesome little road called The Shambles which is a little medieval street and the houses pretty much meet up over your head. We had proper English Afternoon Tea in The Earl Grey Tea Rooms where they had loads of different blends of tea. Also a good selection of cakes and what not. I had toasted tea cakes (yum yum). We also went to see York Minster. We had to pay a fair amount of money to

York Minster

get in but it was so worth it. York Minster is beautiful (incidentally the largest cathedral in the world apparently - in any case it's massive) We also went into the crypt which is like a mini-York-Minster-museum.

On Sunday we went to have a look round the university campus. Despite being quite conretey and square it's quite a nice campus (despite what certain people say) because there's loads of green space (albeit covered in bird poo) and it's quite small and cosy. In my opinion. General consensus from my family was that it would be nicer if it weren't so covered in bird poo and was less concretey. However I think this would take away most of it so there we go.

That was pretty much our entire trip to York. If it sounds like a sales pitch, it's because it is basically... you should come to visit me. I'm even planning on taking a Lillo with me so you can sleep on my floor. Do it!