Day 4
I started day 4 with a bus tour that took an hour to go round the recorded narrator telling people about the buildings and sights on the way , got off at York Minster this took around 250 years to build as the builders kept dying of the plague ! And some fell off (no health and safety in them days !)
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loginAfter looking around here we went to the shortest street in the UK its called whip-ma whop-ma gate it only has 1 building on it and is only 10 metres long ! This is located at one end of the shambles (the inspiration for Diagon Ally in Harry Potter ) it used to all be butchers shops and there are still some hooks on the buildings where the meat was displayed , as you can see the buildings are stepped outwards and kind of lean toward each other , this was because people used to throw their poop out the windows in to the street so any being thrown from the floor above woollen land on the windows below :p
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At the end of this street a path way leads to Dick Turpins grave (supposed )
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Got up quite early as we had an appointment at the cat cafe
the resident cats are all rescues and they also have cats and kittens up for adoption. All the cats were so cute and the cafe had shelves and things for the cats to climb and jump on
we had tea and cake while the kitties wondered about warning cuteness over load ahead
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loginSpent the afternoon there and went back and had some fish and chips from a nice chippy along the road from the hotel
After we went to the york dungeons for one of the “late night tours” (more swearing and naughty bits
)unfortunately we weren’t allowed to take pics there :/
Day6
On our last day we went to the York Castle Museum here you can see the prison and the walls that went around Cliffords tower, the museum now stands where the prison was and part of it still exists as part of the museum including the exercise yard now playing host to games for sprogs .
First there was rooms set up from different eras
17th century
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but were a little mixed up
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loginThe horse I am standing by was quite worse for wear and I wanted to take him home and repaint him !
They even had a jail cell in the police station
“im innocent I tells ya !!!”
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loginThey had projectors in the cells telling you about the person that was kept there including Dick Turpin !
Spent about 4 hours here ! Very interesting
After we went to a chocolate shop and went back to the hotel as there wasn’t much open (it was Sunday)
And saw some canoeists on the river Ooze
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loginthe next day we went home having walked 34 miles around york that week