Finally we’ve done the three most touristy things in York. York is only slightly smaller than Oxford, but it seems to suffer from tourists more than Oxford, I’m not sure why. What I hear you ask is “suffering” from tourists. Picture this, a lovely foot path full of people looking up, down, left, right – in fact people looking in every direction except where they are walking. Then you bump into them. If they are English tourists, they apologise “sorry”, “sorry about that”, “Oh, I’m sorry”. English people apologise for everything – believe me! BUT if they are French, Spanish, American (and yes Australian) they just seem surprised that you walked into them when it’s obvious they can’t see you while they are looking up, left etc etc. Oh and to add to this, they tend to walk onto the roads. Unannounced. They appear surprised when you almost knock them to the ground when you whizz by on your bike.
Anyway, enough ranting. York = tourists. But it’s still a lovely place. OK, the three must see things in York in a particular order…
1. The city walls. York was a walled city, and most of the city walls and gate houses still exist. They are lovely to walk around
2. York’s Minster. England’s largest church. And large it is. This time I went to the top, next time I’ll go to the bottom. I also saw the middle. Kate took the opportunity to go shopping while I went around this Church…
3. The National Rail Museum. Yes several large buildings full of trains and carriages. This place was super amazing. I expected a few trains, and a lot of little stuff. I was really wrong, it was FULL of many trains from some of the earliest some very recent trains.
Beauties like…
Finally we went for a drive with Roger and Danielle to Bempton Cliffs. The cliff home to many sea birds including Puffins! We saw several puffins flying out and about and one sitting in the cliffs. I wasn’t quick enough with the camera to get any snaps, but you can see that Kate found one puffin that didn’t move too quickly.
The easy to find puffin
I’ve taken a few more photos, feel free to check them out HERE.