Our final touring destination is York

 We’ve come to the final destination of our tour! We travel from Edinburgh to the English city of York.

After a long day of driving, we are settled in our home for the stay and decide to find a snack, The Exhibition Pub seems like just the spot.

 

Its a right old pub. No snacks except crisps and drinks. 

We try a variety of crisps and get drinks.

Afterwards we set out for a quick look at the town..

The botanical garden is down this way

Wow! Didn’t expect ruins. Beautiful

St. Mary’s Abby

 
More ruins of the Abby

One of the city gates in the wall surrounding the city

The Ouse river

Interesting buildings along our walk

We were just walking along and checked into one of the many churches here in York/ The York Oratory.

Touring the Mister:

The minster is quite large and magnificient  

 

See the scaffolding behind the Constantine statue? 

Repair/restoration of the blocks are being done..

It was quite interesting to watch these young masons work to duplicate exactly the stonework needing repair.

And of course the Romans have been here!

A Roman column found here

The nave

The kings chair

An official map of the minster

The stain glass work throughout was an incredible example of medieval glasswork

Statues of the 15 kings create the screen of the organ/

The flooring in a chapel

This is where the above flooring is

The ceiling above the decorated floor

The stain glass is a marvel. Most of it is original from 1400 or so.

The choir left. This is still an active church

A young prince’s tomb. Medieval era.

After the Munster, we got on the HOHP and toured around the city.

The site where the entire Jewish population of York died. They were blamed for bringing the black plague to the area and Londoners who came to York attacked them . Instead of allowing that, it seems like they all committed suicide rather than be killed by others. 

Medieval glass windows 

Old pub

Recreating a French knot garden

More views of the city wall

We ended our bus tour with a stop at the National Railroad museum 

The oldest carriage car in the world

Our ride back into the city center from the museum.. always wanted to do this!!! walking the “Shambles “it used to be the butcher district with meat hanging outside the stores.

The medieval shops have the overhang

But the street is soooo very narrow!

Our last activity was to walk along the top of the city walls. This gave us some spectacular views of both the Minster and the gardens in the area. 

 

It was a full day of sight seeing and tonight we are heading our to celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary at a local restaurant. Then back to get our suitcases partially packed and ready to get into the car and head to our Heathrow Hotel.

 The Star Inn the city was a very nice restaurant along the river. You entered by walking under the city walls.

 Along with Susan and Stephen we had a wonderful dinner and celebrated our anniversary and the ending of our UK tour. I find myself looking forward to getting near the airport because that means I’m closer to home. Its been a wonderful trip and I will evaluate and wrap it up when I return to home. I think Dorothy (wizard of Oz ) had it right… There’s no place like home!