Blogs from York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

We arrived in Heathrow around 7am and went to Kings Cross train station via the Picadilly line. Our train didn't leave until 10:30am so we had plenty of time waiting to leave for York. Kings Cross is where in the Harry Potter book they leave from a non-existant platform, they have a luggage cart for a photo-op that looks like it's disappearing into the wall. We stayed in the Hazelwood B&B, just outside the Gilygate near York Minister. The city inside the old walls is easily walkable which is what we did for the next two days. We joined a "haunted" walking tour at night just as an excuse to stay awake to fix our jetlag. We started day 2 walking the south end of the wall as we had walked the north (old Roman area) ... read more

June 25th: Off to York, experienced the "get kids ready for school" morning pandemonium that Emma had warned me about, then headed off to the station and (afer chucking some money across to my HSBC acount) travelled from Leeds through to York. Once again experienced that instant familiarity which will of course be missing (for better or worse) once I stop visiting places that I've been to before. I met up with my friend Susi, we had a look around bookshops (I'm nearly done reading Stephen King's "11:22:63") then off to have a bit of lunch and a good catchup. The weather had done a bit of a number on York, and, while we were able to walk along the riverfront for the most part, there were occasions where we had to keep on trying till ... read more

Dear Blog Readers, I've had one of the most amazing weeks of my life and decided it was definitely blog worthy. I will try and loosely relate them to travelling so that the diehard travelblog readers aren't too disappointed! After a couple of months of practicing with my excellent driving instructor Ros (please get in contact if you want her details - highly recommended!) and going out with my nerves-of-steel Mum have been very effective. My test wasn't great. In fact, I my reverse around a corner was so dire that I actually assumed I'd failed within the first two minutes. Maybe it was the lack of nerves after that which made me pass! So I now hold a shiny new (manly) pink driving license which opens up the opportunities when travelling abroad. My instructor was ... read more

I am finally getting used to this place and tomorrow morning I am off to a new city. I have to go through London and change trains and by tomorrow night I will be in Canterbury. This morning I went to the Castle Museum, it was an interesting museum. There was a mish-mash of items and rooms ranging from a victorian street to an exhibit of the 60’s and even a dungeon. It was very informative though which was nice and I took quite a lot of pictures, of various signs as well as the exhibitions. Unfortunately I ran out of space on my SD card so I had to start going through and deleting old pictures, which takes a while. In the afternoon I went to the Railway Museum which was also really quite interesting. ... read more

Woke up early this morning to snow! There was not much and by the time I went outside to go to the train station it was mostly slush on the ground. I spent the morning on the train and arrived in York around 12:45 in the afternoon. Check-in time was not until 2 p.m. so I went for a bit of a walk to familiarize myself with the town. My bag got quite heavy so I went back to the hostel and I was able to check in a bit early. The Ace Hostel (where I am staying) is a Georgian townhouse from 1752. Instead of packing my large suitcase I managed to condense everything I needed for 10 days into a large red carpet bag, a medium shoulder bag that I got in Paris and ... read more