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wandering around York
Sep. 6th, 2005 07:46 pm9/6 3:50pm UT
We got up at about 7:30 and wanted down to the breakfast room. The hotel offered a full English breakfast. I had bacon, eggs, beans on toast, mushrooms and stewed tomatoes. Ah! I do love a good breakfast. Russell warns me that I'll gain weight if I keep eating like that. *sigh* Probably true. But it was yummy!
We called a car hire place and found they wouldn't have a car available today until about 10:30, so we reserved one for tomorrow at 9:30 for our trip to Castle Howard and the coast. That left today to look around York. The earliest opening attraction was the York Castle Museum and I'm very glad we checked it out! It is a large museum that centers on life in Yorkshire. There were Victorian and Edwardian storefronts and rooms recreated from period pieces to look as they would in different periods (from about 1750 to the present). There was a whole gallery called "Spotless" on the history of cleaning with lots of soap recipes, early vacuum cleaners, washing machines and such. It was fascinating! There was a "cradle to grave" gallery with everything from birthing instruments to a horse drawn hearse. I liked the wedding and christening gowns. By the time we'd walked through these galleries I really couldn't face the stairs for the other half of the museum. Russell went through that had and tells me I would have really liked the several costume galleries on offer but I just couldn't do it.
Then we rode the beautiful carousel set up in the museum lawn. It was a fun period piece itself and went quite a bit faster than I am used to going. The attendant said they were playing music with a CD player because they had such a problem with vandalism that even though they had all the pieces for the calliope it just wasn't worth keeping it running. And they only had electric lights on the swags rather than the whole of the interior because vandals like to break them. I thought that was very sad.
Then we walked past Fairfax House (and I saw the several story spiral staircase and decided I didn't need to see it! Russell remembered seeing a restaurant called Judge's Yard or something like that and we headed over and had tea and guiness and a salmon parcel stuffed with shrimp and cream cheese. It was nice to dine under a tree and just sit for awhile. Russell then got a balti chicken pie for lunch and we wandered over to York Minster. I chickened out from paying 7 quid to see the church and told him I'd be back in 20 minutes and did a whirlwind souvenier shopping tour. I got my usual walking stick mount and patch. I really need to figure out what to do with all the walking stick mounts I have! Perhaps a shadow box or something to display them in. I picked him back up at the Minster and we walked to several camera stores to see if they had a card reader as Russell had forgotten to bring his. The first place had one for 29, the next for 24 and the last for 15. He decided to go ahead and get the last one as he'd spend that much having CDs made in shops. He brought blank CDs so he could burn things from my laptop, but somehow the reader didn't make it into the luggage. Not that it might not have disappeared when they searched his bag. They took his UK power adapter. Luckily, I had thought we might need two and had one i my bag. We're hoping I'm wrong about needing more than one. *grin*
He's gone off to the train museum and I'm writing this entry and eating a scone from the bag I bought at a church jumble sale. Six scones for 50p... I couldn't resist!
7:54pm UT
I finished my novel and fell asleep. At about 6pm Russell phoned from the train museum and asked if I wanted to meet him at the York Boat dock to go on a tour. I had bounced out of bed and off toward the bridge when he called back and said it looked like they'd stopped for the evening. We saw a York Boat out when we left dinner last night but evidently it isn't tonight. *grumble* Russell wasn't hungry but agreed to go have an appetizer whilst I ate at Kapadokya Turkish BBQ restaurant. It is close to our hotel and I had a lovely feta appetizer (their house made bread was incredible!) and then a grilled lamb chop (pirzola) plate which was a bit overcooked but still yummy. Russell ate dolmas and a glass of port. I really wanted to have dessert but really was too full. As we were walking home we passed a coffee bar in a Ramada Inn that had wifi so I picked up my laptop and headed over to post these journal entries. :-)
We got up at about 7:30 and wanted down to the breakfast room. The hotel offered a full English breakfast. I had bacon, eggs, beans on toast, mushrooms and stewed tomatoes. Ah! I do love a good breakfast. Russell warns me that I'll gain weight if I keep eating like that. *sigh* Probably true. But it was yummy!
We called a car hire place and found they wouldn't have a car available today until about 10:30, so we reserved one for tomorrow at 9:30 for our trip to Castle Howard and the coast. That left today to look around York. The earliest opening attraction was the York Castle Museum and I'm very glad we checked it out! It is a large museum that centers on life in Yorkshire. There were Victorian and Edwardian storefronts and rooms recreated from period pieces to look as they would in different periods (from about 1750 to the present). There was a whole gallery called "Spotless" on the history of cleaning with lots of soap recipes, early vacuum cleaners, washing machines and such. It was fascinating! There was a "cradle to grave" gallery with everything from birthing instruments to a horse drawn hearse. I liked the wedding and christening gowns. By the time we'd walked through these galleries I really couldn't face the stairs for the other half of the museum. Russell went through that had and tells me I would have really liked the several costume galleries on offer but I just couldn't do it.
Then we rode the beautiful carousel set up in the museum lawn. It was a fun period piece itself and went quite a bit faster than I am used to going. The attendant said they were playing music with a CD player because they had such a problem with vandalism that even though they had all the pieces for the calliope it just wasn't worth keeping it running. And they only had electric lights on the swags rather than the whole of the interior because vandals like to break them. I thought that was very sad.
Then we walked past Fairfax House (and I saw the several story spiral staircase and decided I didn't need to see it! Russell remembered seeing a restaurant called Judge's Yard or something like that and we headed over and had tea and guiness and a salmon parcel stuffed with shrimp and cream cheese. It was nice to dine under a tree and just sit for awhile. Russell then got a balti chicken pie for lunch and we wandered over to York Minster. I chickened out from paying 7 quid to see the church and told him I'd be back in 20 minutes and did a whirlwind souvenier shopping tour. I got my usual walking stick mount and patch. I really need to figure out what to do with all the walking stick mounts I have! Perhaps a shadow box or something to display them in. I picked him back up at the Minster and we walked to several camera stores to see if they had a card reader as Russell had forgotten to bring his. The first place had one for 29, the next for 24 and the last for 15. He decided to go ahead and get the last one as he'd spend that much having CDs made in shops. He brought blank CDs so he could burn things from my laptop, but somehow the reader didn't make it into the luggage. Not that it might not have disappeared when they searched his bag. They took his UK power adapter. Luckily, I had thought we might need two and had one i my bag. We're hoping I'm wrong about needing more than one. *grin*
He's gone off to the train museum and I'm writing this entry and eating a scone from the bag I bought at a church jumble sale. Six scones for 50p... I couldn't resist!
7:54pm UT
I finished my novel and fell asleep. At about 6pm Russell phoned from the train museum and asked if I wanted to meet him at the York Boat dock to go on a tour. I had bounced out of bed and off toward the bridge when he called back and said it looked like they'd stopped for the evening. We saw a York Boat out when we left dinner last night but evidently it isn't tonight. *grumble* Russell wasn't hungry but agreed to go have an appetizer whilst I ate at Kapadokya Turkish BBQ restaurant. It is close to our hotel and I had a lovely feta appetizer (their house made bread was incredible!) and then a grilled lamb chop (pirzola) plate which was a bit overcooked but still yummy. Russell ate dolmas and a glass of port. I really wanted to have dessert but really was too full. As we were walking home we passed a coffee bar in a Ramada Inn that had wifi so I picked up my laptop and headed over to post these journal entries. :-)
