Tuesday June 11, 2019

Joy took us to the train station in Derby, for our train to York. We were there early at the station and the train rolled into the station. We had reserved seats and settled down for the two hours trip to York. About 15 minutes into the trip, we were told to move from our coach as the lighting was not functioning properly. We had to move forward four coaches, what a pain. However, we chatted to nice people on the train. Shelley chatted to an elderly couple from Doncaster going to York for a little break. I chatted to two touring cyclists who were heading up to the north of Scotland from Glasgow. There route was mostly gravel roads, I hope the weather improves for them. Fortunately they were staying at B & B’s at least they would have a hot shower and a warm bed at the end of the day.

We took the bus from the train station to our B&B then headed into York for a little wander around.

We are staying about 10 minutes walk from the Minster, it is going to be my landmark for finding our way back to the B & B. The Minster is such a beautiful building and quite jaw-dropping when you first see the magnificence of the stone-work.

We had a nice soup and sandwich for lunch and carried on having a wander around the streets and alleyways of old York as well as wandering a little around the newer area. Shelley wanted buy her son a nice flat-cap. We found one that she really liked made of Harris Tweed. I modeled them in the shop for her, I am convinced the sales person thought we were nutters, but we don’t care.

On the way back to our B& B along Gillygate we found a nice little pub where we stopped to have dinner. They had a nice Chicken, leek and mushroom pie with mashed potatoes and vegetables for 10.00 pounds. I asked how large the pie was – the landlord said there big and motioned a pie the size of a bowler hat. We decided to share our dinners as the portions are so large. The pie was more top hat shaped. There was plenty of food for the two of us and really tasty. We had a couple of glasses of wine and then headed back to the B&B where I started to catch up with the blog.