A Year Abroad: Day Eleven. York.

I woke this morning and went to the shopping centre to check out getting a Liverpool FC jersey printed. I forgot there's a game on today, so there was already a crowd waiting to get in. Once the store had opened, it quickly became packed, so I didn't end up buying one.

I did a bit of snack shopping, then headed back to the hotel to leave for York. The drive was about 2-3 hours.

Once we pulled in at York, we were taken on a quick walk through town, going passed Clifford's Tower, a site at used to be part of Liverpool castle and a mass of Jews were burned a few hundred years ago, York minster, and up the shambles, a Middle Ages streets with original buildings, that have all kind of fallen over a bit over time. The name though comes from the blocks that butchers used to cut meat up on back in the day.

We were then set loose, and as soon as, it started raining. Most of the others headed to a tea house, but I went to the castle museum. Which oddly didn't really have anything to do with castles, but had heaps of rooms made up as rooms from history, like a 1950's kitchen, a dining room from the 1870's, and the like.

Afterwards, we went to a pub for a roast, and then I headed back into the now much emptier streets for some better photo opportunities.

Our hotel was a bit out of town, more near Leeds, so we had a night in.