Thursday 2 June 2005
Wow! York is an amazing city. If you are ever coming to Britain make sure this is a must-do, at least two days.
Today we had breakfast and headed out for a walk around the city. We walked through lanes that look as though they are Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter movies until we got to the York Minster. The Minster is huge! It's over 150 metres long and the main part is 45 metres wide. That's big enough to fit a Rugby field and have room on the end for some spectators. Also the entrance is wider than the church - it was destoryed by a fire in 1986 but rebuilt. We took a tour with a guide, it lasted 90 minutes and was only a breif look at the Minster. The guide said if you want to look at everything it would take a week! The guided tour is free and departs every 15 mins, so do it as we saw details that no-one not on the guided tour would notice.
We then walked through the town to the Shambles, which looks even more like Diagon Alley with the houses almost enclosing over the lane. You could literally shake hands with the person accross the street thre floors up.
After lunch we joined another free (walking) tour of York. The guide showed us all the old Roman Walls and the bars (which are the gates into the cities, not the drinking places) and some of the interesting things that tourists wouldn't know about, including the Holy Trinity church, which has box pews and private chapels. The walk was almost three hours and very good.
We then went back to the Minster for the Evensong service, which had a choir and the organ was playing - very good accoustics.
After dinner we were worn out so went back to the Hotel to rest before dancing some of the night away in the nightclub across the road. If you can't beat them ...
Today we had breakfast and headed out for a walk around the city. We walked through lanes that look as though they are Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter movies until we got to the York Minster. The Minster is huge! It's over 150 metres long and the main part is 45 metres wide. That's big enough to fit a Rugby field and have room on the end for some spectators. Also the entrance is wider than the church - it was destoryed by a fire in 1986 but rebuilt. We took a tour with a guide, it lasted 90 minutes and was only a breif look at the Minster. The guide said if you want to look at everything it would take a week! The guided tour is free and departs every 15 mins, so do it as we saw details that no-one not on the guided tour would notice.
We then walked through the town to the Shambles, which looks even more like Diagon Alley with the houses almost enclosing over the lane. You could literally shake hands with the person accross the street thre floors up.
After lunch we joined another free (walking) tour of York. The guide showed us all the old Roman Walls and the bars (which are the gates into the cities, not the drinking places) and some of the interesting things that tourists wouldn't know about, including the Holy Trinity church, which has box pews and private chapels. The walk was almost three hours and very good.
We then went back to the Minster for the Evensong service, which had a choir and the organ was playing - very good accoustics.
After dinner we were worn out so went back to the Hotel to rest before dancing some of the night away in the nightclub across the road. If you can't beat them ...
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