26th June 2005 – York + planned route for week3
It was another glorious and sunny morning, so it was time to top up on the tan. At around 11am, we decided to move on and explore York. I wasn’t expecting too much as it was a Sunday (closed shops and few people), but whilst driving towards it, there were a number of cyclists on the road. Nav remembered hearing something about a cycle around the city of York, and as we got further in there were many more. In fact, there were a number of pedestrians too and a lot of the shops were open too. Turns out that York has two Saturdays and that nobody has a restful Sunday. We managed to park quite away from the town centre, but as we walked we found this:
The town was very pleasant with a number of streets containing modern shops, yet the streets still having their old quality about them. We found York Minister without a problem what with it probably being the tallest and largest building in town. We had a quick look inside but it didn’t seem like anything special. Next, we walked some more around town and, with help from the TIC, found the Guildhall. Today, it was being used for a craft fair and that didn’t look particularly interesting either.
Walking down the street, we encountered a street performer. It was a kind of human puppet show with the artist using a kazoo-type instrument to make accompanying sounds with his movements. I think that we all found it pretty entertaining and there was a small round of applause after he had finished.
We also found another street performer who, like that in Carlisle, was pretending to be some sort of statue. Except that this one was crap because he didn’t keep still and was still standing on the podium whilst he was chatting to some people. Utter rubbish.
Because of the long drive to Lincoln, we thought it best to leave, so at around 3:30pm, we headed on back to the car. Along the way, Nav bought himself a scanner to OCR his work and that was about it really. Nothing exciting happened, but that’s not to say York is uninteresting. Altogether, it’s a very nice place to visit and probably live, full of young and old people, and hardly any (if any at all, as I did see any) young scally-wags.
The planned route can be found at:
planned route for week 3
-- steven
The town was very pleasant with a number of streets containing modern shops, yet the streets still having their old quality about them. We found York Minister without a problem what with it probably being the tallest and largest building in town. We had a quick look inside but it didn’t seem like anything special. Next, we walked some more around town and, with help from the TIC, found the Guildhall. Today, it was being used for a craft fair and that didn’t look particularly interesting either.
Walking down the street, we encountered a street performer. It was a kind of human puppet show with the artist using a kazoo-type instrument to make accompanying sounds with his movements. I think that we all found it pretty entertaining and there was a small round of applause after he had finished.
We also found another street performer who, like that in Carlisle, was pretending to be some sort of statue. Except that this one was crap because he didn’t keep still and was still standing on the podium whilst he was chatting to some people. Utter rubbish.
Because of the long drive to Lincoln, we thought it best to leave, so at around 3:30pm, we headed on back to the car. Along the way, Nav bought himself a scanner to OCR his work and that was about it really. Nothing exciting happened, but that’s not to say York is uninteresting. Altogether, it’s a very nice place to visit and probably live, full of young and old people, and hardly any (if any at all, as I did see any) young scally-wags.
The planned route can be found at:
planned route for week 3
-- steven
posted by Steven | 5:12 pm
2 Comments:
I am indeed a brunette. I know York well I used to live near there so it was a quick trip by bus or train to mosey about on a boring Saturday.
PS. I've put a link to you in my blog hope you don't mind though I doubt I'll do much for your traffic stats
Jane
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