York trip

Last weekend we took a trip to York. York is a city in the north, half way between London and Edinburgh. York is a walled city - both the Romans and the medieval saxons built a huge stone wall around the entire city, with these huge gates. You can walk around on top of the wall in most places.






There was a Viking convention in York (we didn't actually see any people with horned helmets or anything - I was expecting it to be like a Capital One commercial), but it did make it hard to find a Bed and Breakfast. We stayed in "The Royal Dragon Hotel." Only it turned out the dragon wasn't the St. George, British type, but more the "Our bed and breakfast is above a Chinese restaurant."




On Saturday we toured York Minster which is a huge cathedral - it's bigger than St. Peter's in Rome, and inside it has a lot of really nice carvings and stained glass.






Then at night we went on a ghost walk, where they tell you about all the people who died in York due to the plague and other wonderful diseases, and how they still haunt the old houses.







York also had really great tea rooms, so we all had a lot of tea and scones with cream and jam.

The next day, we went on a walking tour, and had a really great lunch at the Blue Bicycle, a restaurant which used to be an old brothel. Then we headed back, and we had to stop in London at King's Cross station. This was the highlight of the trip for several people, as they got to pretend they were Harry Potter going to Hogworts.