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Published: September 22nd 2007
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Our Hostel
This is where we stayed in York Early Friday (14th) morning at 8 am, we left for our first house trip. We loaded the coach and drove about 2 hours to York. Along the way our coach driver, Bob, pointed out different landmarks and told us about the history of the area. Once we arrived in York at about 10, we went to our hostel to drop our stuff off so we could explore the city centre. The hostel we stayed at was the York YHA (youth hostel association.) It was surprisingly nicer than any of us had expected. It was a 15 minuted walk to the city centre, but we walked along the Ouse river so the scenery was nice, we passed a rugby pitch and the National Railway Museum. When we arrived at the city centre, we toured the Jorvik Viking Centre. It was really cool, it had a time-tunnel that dropped us 1,000 years back in time. On our tour we saw different areas set up in a model of the old village with various booths and trades. Here's the link if you want to explore more [url=http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/index2.htm.
After the Jorvik Museum we (Abbi, Katie, Erin, Andrea and I) went to the
Our Hostel Sign
This is the sign for our hostel King's Arm, a pub for lunch. It was very reasonably priced. I had Pasta Bolognase with garlic bread, salad and an Organic Cherry Beer. All under 3 pounds. We walked for awhile after lunch then we went to the Yorkshire Museum and garden [url=http://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/Page/Index.aspx . In a few words, it was amazing. A vast majority of my favorite exhibit were of Roman objects, of course. It highlighted on Eboracum, aka Roman York. The exibit had tons of statues, mosaics, jet jewellery, pottery and other everyday objects. We also toured around St. Mary's Abbey in connection with the Museum it was outside and inside. The ruins outside were a vision.
Then we wandered over to the York Minster for our 3 o'clock tour. Our tour guide was Brian Lilia, he was a very energetic and knowledgable retired teacher. Fun fact, the York Minster is actually called the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St. Peter in York. The architecture was truly amazing, it was a mix of early English, Decorated Gothic, and Perpendicular Architecture. The church took 252 years to reach it's current state and was started in 1220 AD. The Minster was originally a Roman Catholic church, but since 1537
Ouse River
This is along our walk to the York City Centre it has been part of the Church of England since King Henry VIII initiated the break from Rome. We took an hour and a half tour. Once it was finished Brian suggested we come back for Evensong a church service with the Men and Boys' choir, it is a service of evening prayers, psalms, and canticles most of it was sung. It was amazing when we went. It was a nice reflection period after our hectic day of traveling. We took a short break between our tour and Evensong and walked along the Northern City Wall of York, it was built and patrolled by Roman guards. It had great veiws of the city and the Minster. Here's the link [url=http://www.yorkminster.org/
After Evensong, all ten of us went to the Royal Oak for dinner. The food was pretty good, I had Chicken curry with rice and Mango chutney. For desert I had bread and butter pudding with warm custard. It was delicious. After dinner we went back to the hostel for the night.
In the morning before we left after our full english breakfast, Alex, Siri, Carrie, and I went back to the city centre with a mission. Guy
Rambling
This is part of York City Centre Fawkes was born and raised in York. So we wanted to find, his parents' home and the school he went to. Well, we asked the people at De Grey Rooms, also known as tourist info centre, but they gave us faulty directions and we ended up at a hospital. But the architecture was cool and it was a nice walk so we didn't mind terribly. We started walking back but we quickly went to the Natinoal Railway Museum. The building looked cool and actually we were pleasantly surprised by the number of real trains they housed inside, we expected it to be just a few and some signs with lots of text but we actually saw tons of trains.
After breezing through the museum we went back and boarded the coach to Fountains Abbey, which I will discuss in my next blog! Until then, Cheers!
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Shannon
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omg hun!!! it is so beautiful there!!! u look like you are having a blast!!! i love the beer...was it any good???