York Castle

Today we had another 3 hour drive to complete so we were up and into it early. The weather forecast was for deteriorating weather later in the day. The drive went well on our old friend the A1 which is variously anything from one lane each way to 3 lanes each way. The driving is pretty easy.
We had a couple of stops at service centres on the way and arrived at our Park and Ride on the outskirts of York late morning. We were able to hop straight on a bus into York where we had a wander around the beautiful old town. The cathedral York Minster is huge and you just can't get it all in a photo. We found a restaurant called the Fat Hippo for lunch which turned out to be an American burger chain and had burgers.
Over lunch we decided to go on a river cruise which was at 1.30 pm. I booked the tickets and we wandered down to the river. The boat was quite large and there were a lot of people on board but the cruise was pretty hopeless. The audio failed after 2 minutes so we spent the rest of the time making up our own commentary and waiting for it to be over.
After we escaped from the boat we headed back to the motorhome and found our camp for the night. I had been looking forward to a camp closer to restaurants and pubs after several nights of eating in the motorhome. Google maps showed that there was a carvery just down the road from the camp and a shopping centre about 1.5 kilometres away however on checking in the camp people told us that you can't walk anywhere because it is a busy road and there are no footpaths. We tossed up about getting a taxi but decided to have 2 minute noodles that we had bought in London and which needed to be eaten. They were actually quite good.Read more