Ireland and UK Holiday 2015, 22nd June

To York

Another day of those horrible English motorways and A roads and roundabouts (can you sense that I don't like driving here?), inexplicable jams that appear randomly on motorways plus occasional blinding rainstorms all added to the fun. One nice thing is that the Peugeot diesel car that we have gets between 60 and 70 miles per gallon even at high speed on the motorways, so that is nice for what seems to be a bit of a lump of a car.

Anyway, got to York safely and still raining a little plus a very cold wind blowing. Despite that we went for a walk to stretch the legs, it takes only about 10 minutes for us to walk to the Shambles and the Minster from our B&B. There is definitely much to explore in York so will get more organised tomorrow. Meanwhile here's a few random photos from this afternoon.

The city wall is fairly complete, here's the gate that leads to our street......



On the way we walk over the Foss river that winds through part of the city....



Looking down Pavement St at a church.......



View along the Shambles [shambles originally meant butcher's slaughterhouse]......



Your eyes are perfectly OK, the upper floor really does slope down like that.......



York Minster is a monster, needed to use the bendy fisheye lens to fit it all in from where I was, scaffolding and all.....



The front from up a side street. It is hard in a photograph to convey the impression of the huge size of the Minster, it looms over everything.....



The bendiness is not due to any lens, it's due to old wood and gravity......



Let's hope some sun appears tomorrow so we can get some better pictures.