York in Hello.

So me and the girls had a lovely time in York!
We arrived mid Saturday afternoon and decided to have a wander into the city. I hate driving in unfamiliar places and we were only about a 15 minute walk from town, so I parked the car behind the B and B and it stayed there till Tuesday!
We walked past Clifford Tower and decided to pop in for a look. We’re English Heritage members so got in for free. We then had a quick look around the city centre to get our bearings, went into a music shop and an antique shop among other places, then went back to the B & B for hot chocolates and showers.
Sunday we went to Jorvik, then to a cute cafe for tea and cakes. We had a look round the market and heard some pretty good buskers. They said they were playing a gig in a pub later on, so we went along to watch. They were fab! An accordion, a double bass, a guitar and a violin player doing their own interpretations of pop songs.

(Not my video!)
That was a great evening, we did lots of dancing and singing. Bel wanted to try Wagamama’s for dinner. I have to say, I wasn’t impressed!
Monday I discovered a great cafe nearby called Pig and Pastry that was so cool and cooky… I’d probably spend all my time in there if I lived in York! A lovely eclectic mix of furniture and crockery, local artwork on the walls and Harry Potter being piped into the toilets! We were quite close to the walls, so we walked along them, then realised we were quite close to the railway museum. I wasn’t terribly excited about going to be honest, but it was free! When we got in though, it was very good. Bel is wanting to go into engineering, so she loved looking at all the engines and watching the staff in the “hospital” fixing the trains up.
After we’d finished there, we took the mini “train” back into the city centre, and discovered a street that was pretty much just charity shops! We had lunch in Subway (absolutely soul destroying, but everywhere else was jam packed) then booked a tour on the chocolate story. That was fun, but I ate loads of chocolate and got a migraine!
We were leaving on Tuesday, but Bel wanted to go to the nearby Chinese supermarket, then we were going to visit a cold war bunker (again English heritage). But when we got there, it was still closed for the season. Still, I managed to drive around the middle of York without having a melt down, so go me!

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On Saturday Rob is going to Buxton for his uni open day, but he’s traveling down tomorrow and staying over, as it’s an all day thing. So I said I’d take him to the station in the morning.