York II

Playlist
The Beatles – Love
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Fuenfzehn Neue DAF Lieder

Up early and a good breakfast (full English yet again)...

Sunny at last...



...but sad news as I accessed the net for the first time since the weekend – Jim Igoe had advised by e-mail that Lloyd died yesterday at the Infirmary...

The only thing good to take from this was that at least he got to speak with his wife again in the ten days or so before he finally capitulated to his worsened heart condition...

Under the sun, we walked to the city gate and up and onto the City Walls and into the town...





We descended at the river near the Railway Station...



...and visited the York Museum Gardens, full of squirrels and ruins...





Then back to the Minster and rejoined the wall following it all the way around the Cathedral...







In one tower we read the history of the much maligned Richard the Third who was defeated in battle and killed just a couple of years into his reign by Henry VII who had no real claim to the throne and so set about having Richard's history re-written...

And of course York was also a Roman settlement...



We left the wall at the furthest point from the Minster and walked back through the old town, stopping at a book shop where I picked up Marc Almond’s tome regarding his mid-life crisis (v interesting it is too) and down to the riverside to the Lowther Bar...



Post drinks we enjoyed an ice cream as we walked along the river to the castle area and the smallest castle you could imagine (possibly)...



Then back to the centre and another pastie for lunch before walking to the nearby National Rail Museum...

Probably took too many pictures of trains for anyone but a train-geek – which I assure you I am not...

Here’s what they're doing to the Flying Scotsman right now...



Wended our weary way to the hotel via a stop off at Lamb CD (no purchases) and then The Punch Bowl for a few drinks...

Dinner was courtesy the local chippy – fish & chips once again – then a return to our base to rest our feet for a while...

In the evening, we walked back into town and enjoyed more drinks back at the river’s edge before going to the centre and Harker’s Bar, where we discovered via text from home that Hearts were beating Dinamo Zagreb 2-0...

We walked home over the river...



...and via yet another bar, where we watched Aston Villa exit the Europa League at the hands of rapid Vienna...



Ended the day with “Big Bang Theory” and “The Loop”...

Highlight of the Day : Some sun at last!