Blogs from York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 12

38 days to go before we leave for India, I'm started to get excited, we sent off our passports for the important Indian Visas, and on Thursday this week, pop down to the Travel Clinic to top up on jabs! More later.... read more

Well Phil has been over in Meribel for a few weeks now and he seems to be really enjoying the new job. we've still not go 100% confirmation of where we'll be but it's looking like Verbier in Switzerland. The accomodation that he's seen seems to be very small but he's confident that we NEED to take the wide screen tv. Well that's easy for him to say since i'm the one packing the van and doing the drive. Various contact details are email : flickitysplit@hotmail.com / philonsnow@hotmail.co.uk phils work mobile 0033614368937 so we'll still answer emails but i'll prob just up date this blog with what we're doing and attch photos etc for people to get jealous over!! My estimated date of leaving is 26th nov so the count down is on....... Flic x... read more

Friday night I went to the Campus Bar with some friends to catch some local rock bands. It turns out that the headliners, Hungover Stuntmen, are rather renown in this section of the UK, particularly because three of the four members are graduates from the university. All the bands were pretty great, especially the second act, Little Comets. They sounded a lot like a British version of Vampire Weekend, but more danceable and musically interesting. Saturday we took a trip to the historic city of York. There was some sort of food festival going on so of course we hit that up for all the free food. There was a German salami stand with dozens of kinds of salami, all of which were delicious, and the smoked salmon from the fish tent was some of the ... read more

Sept. 20, Saturday, Castle Howard and York - splendid weather Bkfst kind of marginal - did have fried eggs available (whites overcooked, and yolk kind of okay - not as greasy as some have been) and the same kind of bacon that's not like American or Canadian bacon - it was not as salty as some has been. No pastries out, and fruit marginal. At least we had gotten to sleep in til 7:15 or 30 or so. Left at 9 for Castle Howard and it took twice as long to get there as it should have - the driver didn't seem to know where he was supposed to go to get the coach into the property, but the “house” didn't open till 11, so we were okay, and we were given a reasonable amount of ... read more

Back in time to say thanks to everyone who wished me well in my leaving week. Here are some pictures from my lovely meal in Oscars - even if there was a meat incident with my Chilli ( Gaz- you didnt even notice !) ... read more