Pawley Road: York, England

Next stop, York, England. York was a really cool city that we spent one night in. The city is surrounded by a 3 1/2 mile wall that was built by the Romans. The city was also at one point inhabited by Vikings. It became prosperous through the wool trade and became the capital of the North for the Church of England. It also eventually became a railway hub and a confectionary center.

While it has all this great history, it also is big into yorkshire pudding and pork pies, yum!

While we were visiting we ran the wall which was really cool. We visited the Jorvik Viking Centre. We went to the National Railway Museum. The National Railway Museum was really neat and had a lot of different trains. One of the museum guides walked around with us for a few minutes explaining some of the older trains, such as the mail carrier which was pretty cool. They used to catch the mail in a net on the side of the train! We went to the York Minster, which is the largest medieval cathedral in Northern Europe. It was huge! And pretty cool. We also visited The Shambles. The Shambles is a very old street that has timber framed building that overhang. They are so close together that I feel like you could stand in the middle of the street and touch each side. We got some yummy pork pies and fudge. We walked around a lot and of course visited an old traditional English pub. Apparently, in England they use a great draft/tap system, that we don't use over here, which is great (or so Joe says, he was really excited about it.)