Blogs from York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 16

On the first weekend in June I met up with my mate Warwick, who had been doing the 'great castle tour' of Scotland and Northern England, in York. Was great to catch up with another Aussie friend, and to check out the walled city of York (I love a good wall!!). Why does it have the wall? To keep the rabbits out, of course. Just jokes, the wall dates back to Roman times where they protected a Roman fort, but were later used when York was invaded by the Vikings and Normans ... and to protect against anti-tax rioters. Apparently, York has more intact city walls that any other city in England, most other cities having destroyed theirs when the town began to extend beyond them (good tourist value foresight by someone!). There are about 2.5 ... read more

YorkAriana and Lachlan Last weekend was the May Day long weekend in the UK so we decided it was time to venture out of our now comfortable Nottinghamshire and investigate what England has to offer. Just a quick train ride north we found historic York, a city we hadn’t heard much about before arriving in the UK apart from a pudding meant to be eaten with meat and a nursery rhyme about an old Duke. The York city centre is enclosed by a stone wall which must have been built by Emperor Nasi Goreng to keep the rabbits out (ha!), or more accurately by the Romans to keep intruders out. Obviously they needed it because since 71AD York has been occupied by the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings, William the Conqueror, the Normans… and most recently ... read more

Scotter to YorkStacey Morford Hiya! On this day we drove a little over an hour to the West and a bit North for a day trip to York. This is a medieval city. Much of it's medieval history is still visible today. Starting with York Minster. This cathedral took 250 years to build and was finished and consecrated in 1472. More pictures to come when we get to tour the inside. It is said to have a beautiful collection of stained glass. They are constantly doing refurbishing to the building. In the photos you can see where old stones have been replaced with new based on the coloring of the stones. There is a medieval city wall that still circles the city--it is a 2.5 mile walk. We mostly walked around the town center. Lots of ... read more

Sorry for the lack of chronological order here guys, I intended to get this posted before the London blog but I have been very busy with essays so it’s a bit out of whack. Our weekend in York was two weeks before London, just so you know. Meags, George and I had the opportunity to spend the weekend in York with George’s flatmate, Ali and her family. So taking advantage of this, we left Friday morning to the train station to start our day long journey north to the early medieval city of York. We dropped into Norwich on the way to the station picking up gifts for our host family and getting breakfast so by the time we caught the next bus, we had to wait for the 11:57 train. We travelled to our next ... read more

Hello everyone. My adventure is now over, or at least my Asian adventure. I arrived home in York just over a week ago and have been busy ever since. We got home fine after arising at 4:30 am in Mumbai, getting a taxi to the airport, flying for 2 hours to Dubai, waiting for 2 hours then flying for 8 hours to Manchester where we are picked up by Sam’s mum and I was by 9:30 pm. This blog is by way of a conclusion and look back at the last six months. Firstly, thank you all for reading (more people seem to have read these than I thought) and I hope you haven’t found them to boring. The last six months have been a hell of an adventure and one that I wouldn’t have missed ... read more