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    • TravelerEuropean Christmas 2023 /2024
      Day 26

      Day 25 York, UK

      January 1 in England ⋅ 🌧 5 °C

      The first day of 2024 began with brilliant sunshine and a warmer morning. We walked the 40 minutes into town, passing rural farmland and then many lovely terraced houses. Once in town, it was a short walk to York Minster and we were very pleased to have bought tickets to go in, as it was absolutely beautiful and there was so much to see, including the underground chapel and museum. The history of its construction was fascinating as we considered it was first built in 1080 with many reconstructions since and finally being completed in 1472. We left there for the JORVIK Viking Centre which is a museum and visitor attraction in York, containing lifelike mannequins and life-size dioramas depicting Viking life in the city. We were taken through the dioramas in small carriages equipped with speakers. It was created by the York Archaeological Trust and opened in 1984. It is a truly interactive experience as the sounds and smells add to what you are viewing to give a really good picture of what life was like. We left there to find York much quieter today as many of the shops were shut for New Years Day. After a stop for a coffee we wandered around many old streets and came across the bridge over the River Ouse, which appeared high and flooding some businesses on its banks. As the bus was not running we decided to Uber back for some more relaxation and a delicious dinner of the cheeses, ham and crackers we had purchased yesterday, before playing cards. There is so much to see in York itself, but tomorrow we will venture to the East Yorkshire countryside.Read more

    • TravelerSummer in Yorkshire, UK 2022
      Day 26

      Cat Statues of York

      June 18, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F

      Since the late 1890s-1900s cat statues have been put up on rooftops, eaves, doorways, and windowsills. The tradition may have started to scare rats, but no one knows for sure. In York, cats are considered lucky. There are over 20 of them, and I was lucky enough to spot a few, although I had a map of where to look.

      Then in the evening, we went to an Evensong at York Minster. The singing was beautiful. Usually the singers are all male, but in this one there were 2 young ladies.

      Here are some pictures around York Minster. I couldn't take any photos inside.      Read more

    • TravelerZomer 2022
      Day 27

      York

      August 6, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Goedemorgen York!

      Voor vandaag heb ik veel ste veel foto’s.

      Om 08:00 gaat de wekker! Ik heb met Jennifer afgesproken om 08:30 te vertrekken uit het hostel om zo veel mogelijk uit onze dag te halen.

      We beginnen de dag met de van Gogh experience. De wandeling hier heen duurt 30 minuten. Tijdens deze wandeling krijgen we een mooi voorproefje van wat het prachtige York te bieden heeft.

      De van Gogh experience is een “dia voorstelling” met werken van van Gogh.
      Hierbij krijgen we op een indrukwekkende manier werken van hem te zien.
      (Naast mij was een vrouw aan het huilen, denk dat dit genoeg zegt?)
      De experience duurde iets meer dan een uur.

      Vervolgens gaan we naar de ghost merchants shop! Een winkel waar ze spoken verkopen! Hoe exiting?!
      Toen Jennifer en ik bij de winkel aankwamen zagen we de verwachtte rij. Deze was zoals verwacht erg lang.
      In deze rij spotte wij twee kamer genootjes, Tabea en Naila (uit Duitsland). Ze vertelden day ze al ongeveer 40 minuten in de rij stonden te wachten.
      Jennifer besloot geen zin te hebben om te wachten dus maakte haar eigen plan, en ik sloot mij stiekem bij Naila en Tabea aan.

      In het hostel had ik nog niet zo veel met de meiden gepraat, maar in de rij leerde ik hen wat beter kennen. Ik kwam er achter dat het hele leuke meiden zijn! We kletste voor ongeveer 1 uur. Toen konden we eindelijk de winkel in!

      De winkel was erg klein, maar prachtig gemeubileerd en gedecoreerd. Onder andere door middel van de interactieve touch welke ze aan de winkel hebben gegeven was het het wachten absoluut waard!

      Na de ghost shop sturen wij Jennifer een berichtje. Zij is naar de minster gegaan.
      We besluiten om wat door het stadje te lopen en wachten vervolgens op Jennifer in een parkje.

      Inmiddels is het lunch tijd! We lunchen bij de Mac Donalds.
      Na de lunch nemen we tijdelijk even afscheid van Tabea en Naila. Zij gaan namelijk het de van Gogh experience
      In deze tijd gaan ik en Jenifer samen de stad in naar wat kleding winkels. (Aangezien ik thuis meer dan genoeg kleding heb, heb ik helaas niets gekocht)

      Vervolgens meeten we weer met Naila en Tabea! Altijd weer een fijn weerzien ;)

      Jennifer wilt graag naar het kasteel, en hier gaan we dan ook naartoe.
      Een plek wat een grootte teleurstelling is als je het mij vraagt! Haha
      We gaan dan ook weer vrij snel verder.

      We lopen over de stadsmuur weer terug naar het hostel, waar we onderweg boodschappen doen.

      Samen met Tabea en Naila kook eet ik vanavond! Op het menu; pasta carbonara.

      De rest van de avond doen we rustig aan. We kletsen samen en we raken niet uitgepraat.
      Op onze kamer drinken we stiekem wat “water” uit onze waterflessen

      Om 00:00 houden we het voor gezien en ga ik slapen.
      Vandaag was een geslaagde dag!      Read more

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    • On the trail of Harry Potter
      1
      Day 5

      Diagon Alley

      July 30, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

      Von unserm Zwischen-Stop aus geht es heute nach York. Neben der fast 2.000-jährigen Geschichte von den Römern, den Angelsachsen und den Wikingern gibt es natürlich auch einen weiteren Grund hier Halt zu machen. Die Shambles, eine ehemalige Fleischergasse, soll neben anderen kleinen Gassen in London und Edinburgh als Inspiration und Vorbild für die Winkelgasse gedient haben. Auf jeden Fall konnten wir uns es nach unsrem Besuch gut vorstellen. Einige Geschäfte zeugen auch von der magischen Vorstellungskraft und bieten alles feil, was der Fan begehrt.
      Bevor wir uns zu den Shambles gemacht haben, waren wir noch in der alt ehrwürdigen Kathedrale mit ihrer Geschichte bis in die Römerzeit.      Read more

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    • Chris in the UK
      11
      Day 16

      The Day of Rest

      September 11, 2022 in England ⋅ 🌧 16 °C

      Waking up this morning took some time. We did not rush it. In fact, today we did not rush anything.

      Having an extra day in York that wasn't on the original itinerary was absolutely liberating. There was no pressure to "do Yorkminster," or "do Jorvik" or "do the Shambles." We could just live.

      Moving from a hotel to our Walmgate AirBnB felt like really moving up in the world. The slick white lines and wide open spaces of the AirBnB with its view of a duck-patrolled canal were nothing like the mouldy peach storage box of the Pavilion Hotel. In fact, once we had undergone the tribulations of getting keys and navigating the car park, we realised that we had hit the jackpot with this AirBnB. It is so central, so large, so well appointed in a way that Vauxhall was not.

      We went for morning coffee and anything-but-a-Bap in the old part of town. Then came back home for a shower and a nap. We were unconscious for quite some time.

      When the evening came, we rushed to Waitrose for some achingly perfect comestibles, then we walked back down into the old part of town for some tapas and beer. I had an Estrella which I learned from the waitress is pronounced "estreya" and that sounds exactly to me like "austraya." Dinner was arancini balls, pomegranate salad, and squid. We toasted to Betty Edser on the anniversary of her death (this is the new meaning of 9/11 for us now) and strolled home.

      Tonight we watched the first episode of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power because our AirBnB has all the streaming services available to guests. It was hard to watch because our building is directly facing the student accommodation's windows and I felt like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, hurty leg and all. (That makes Stuart Grace Kelly, not Barbara Bel Geddes) When a shirtless guy closed his blinds I was determined to pay attention to the TV, and I'm glad I did because Lord of the Rings is the best looking TV fantasy I've ever seen. And I already loved Morfydd Clark after seeing "Love and Friendship," "The Personal History of David Copperfield" and "Saint Joan," but I'll be damned if she didn't equal Cate Blanchett for superb narration and unmatched pronunciation of the Tolkienian language.

      I caught up on some writing while I supped on Fentiman's Rose Lemonade and some white chocolate morsels I bought at Hotel Chocolat in Nottingham. Life is peaceful. And York is being very nice to me indeed.      Read more

    • TravelerUnited Kingdom
      Day 18

      York walk about

      August 23, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      York is a walled city in northeast England that was founded by the ancient Romans. Its huge 13th-century Gothic cathedral, York Minster, has medieval stained glass and 2 functioning bell towers. The City Walls form a walkway on both sides of the River Ouse. The Monk Bar gate houses an exhibition tracing the life of 15th-century Plantagenet King Richard III.

      The Shambles is a historic street in York, England, featuring preserved medieval buildings, some dating back as far as the 14th century. The street is narrow, with many timber-framed buildings with jettied floors that overhang the street by several feet.

      Snickelways are alleys, ginnels, snickets and lanes, many of them ancient, that run between York’s streets. First coined by author Mark W. Jones in 1983, snickelways are often hidden and require some effort to discover. Jones’s specific definition of a snickelway is:

      “…a narrow place to walk along, leading from somewhere to somewhere else, usually in a town or city, especially in the city of York.”      Read more

    • UK 2023
      1
      Day 11

      York Day 2

      June 20, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌧 18 °C

      It is raining today, but that didn't stop us. Everyone put on their raincoat and stepped out into the 🌧.

      First stop was the JORVIK Viking centre which is a museum that taught us about the Viking history of York around the 10th century. In addition to a collection of artefacts from archaeological digs in the area, it included a ride down a recreated Viking street that showed us what life was like in a Viking village. The mannequins they used were very life-like, in a freaky kind of way.

      Next, Annabelle and Dani went off to visit the Harry Potter shop in the Shambles, while Tom and Simon played a round of putt putt golf at the "Hole in Wand" golf centre.      Read more

    • Großbritannien Ostern 2023
      1
      Day 14

      Tag 14

      April 13, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

      Wir verlassen Edinburgh und nehmen die A1 entlang der Ostküste. Nach acht Tagen in Schottland passieren wir am Mittag nun bei Berwick-upon-Tweed die englische Grenze. Nach insgesamt 320 km legen wir einen Zwischenstopp in York ein.

      Als wir die Stadt York vor vier Jahren mit Claudius besucht haben, hat sie uns so gut gefallen, dass wir gerne noch einmal herkommen wollen.
      Nach längerer Suche finden wir einen Parkplatz an der historischen Stadtmauer. Wir kommen am Clifford Tower und der ältesten Kirche Englands, dem York Minster, vorbei. Besonders freuen wir uns als wir the Shambles erreichen. Dabei handelt es sich um eine schmale, historische Gasse mit Fachwerkhäusern, deren Entstehung bis ins 14. Jahrhundert zurückreicht. Heute ist die Straße auch als Harry Potter Gasse bekannt, denn dort erhalten junge Zauberer alles was sie für ihren Start in Hogwarts benötigen. Wir erstehen ein Butterbier, den passenden Krug und andere Köstlichkeiten.

      Leider müssen wir schon bald die schöne Stadt verlassen, da wir uns vorgenommen haben heute noch weiter in den Süden zu fahren. Von Dover, wo Samstag in der Früh unsere Fähre ablegen wird, trennen uns aktuell noch gut 500 Kilometer.

      Nach weiteren drei Stunden Fahrt finden wir in Shakespeares Geburtsstadt Stratford-upon-Avon einen Stellplatz für die Nacht.      Read more

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    • TravelerUnited Kingdom
      Day 18

      The York Roast Co

      August 23, 2023 in England ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

      Keeping the UK fed with hearty roast dinner-inspired dishes since 2004 is our family-run business, The York Roast Co. Founded by father and son duo Wayne and Stephen Chadwick, we’re famed for the worldwide viral sensation, the YorkyPud™ Wrap, amongst a heap of other delicious mouthfuls including fresh, slowly- roasted meat sandwiches and those all-important classic roast trimmings.Read more

    • TravelerGreat Britain
      1
      Day 16

      National Railway Museum

      August 19, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌬 21 °C

      Da wir heute ja noch auf die Fähre müssen, nutzen wir die letzten Stunden um uns ein paar Züge im National Railway Museum anzusehen und anschließend setzten wir unseren Weg zurück nach Hull fort. Denn da wartet ja die "Pride of Rotterdam" auf uns.Read more

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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    City of York, York, YOR

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