York Day 2
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Christine updating the webpage in the room at The Sycamore. |
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Christine walking through the tunnel leading to the shortcut through a park |
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Peacock in the park; you can barely see it. It is standing parallel to the building an it's tail feathers are not fanned out |
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Christine in front of some ruins in the park. There are ruins everywhere here. |
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A goose and gosling at the bottom of Clifford's Tower. |
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The plaque at the bottom of Clifford's Tower. |
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Clifford's Tower |
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Part of The Castle Museum |
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Christine in front of the Castle Museum |
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Funny story from the display on birth at the Castle Museum. |
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A list of the weekly deaths in York in the 1700s. |
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Christine in front of the apothecary shop in the Victorian street display at the Castle Museum. |
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Oil bottles in the grocer window in the Victorian street display at the Castle Museum. |
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A "What Happened to Them?" display about what happened to the key players the Civil War and Restoration. I love the red crossbars that show their fate. |
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Prince Rupert and his fate. |
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Cromwell and his fate. |
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Mike liked the banner of Mr. T. |
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Can you pick out Christine at Pickering Station? |
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Christine at Pickering station on the North York Moors Railway. |
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The Hogwarts Express (or rather a steam train) coming into Pickering station. |
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The Hogwarts Express coming into Pickering station. |
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Christine sitting on the steam train on the North York Moors Railway, |
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Christine looking surprised on the train. |
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Mike playing with the black, white and red filter of his camera with Christine getting tired of him taking pictures of me on the train. |
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Christine standing outside the train and watching it refuel with water. |
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Christine waving to people as the train takes off from Pickering Station. |
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View from the window of the North York Moors Railway train. |
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Lazy cows. Almost all of the cows we saw were laying down. And it wasn't even hot! |
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View from the train. |
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View from the train - the wild York moors. Is that gorse? |
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View from the train - dark pine forest through the steam. |
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View from the train - the wild York moors through the steam. |
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More views from the train window of the York moors. |
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Mike holding his camera out the train window. |
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Mike holding his camera out the window; coming into Goatshead station. |
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Hogsmeade (I mean Goatshead) station. |
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Christine on the bridge at Goatshead station. |
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Christine on the bridge at Goatshead station. |
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Goatshead Station. |
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Christine taking a picture of the second coal train coming into Goatshead station. |
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Christine taking more pictures of the second coal train coming into Goatshead station. |
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Local boy waving to the train as it passes. |
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View of burned fields from the train window. |
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Michael and Christine on the train. |
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Michael and Christine being silly on the train. |
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View from the train window going round a bend. |
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View from the train window going round a bend. |
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View from the train window going round a bend the other way. |
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Christine obviously can't read signs. |
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The York Minster |
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The York Minster |
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The York Minster |
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The York Minster |
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When we first saw these signs while driving in Oxford, Mike thought it was for a slug crossing. As you can see, it's actually a sign warning about bumps in the road. |
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The Haunted Walk in York. Here we are in an area called The Shambles, a cool shopping area that used to be where the butcher's row was. The upper floors of the buildings were overbuilt the lower floors to better shade the meat. |
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Christine on the Haunted Walk Tour in the Shambles in York. |
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An old timbered building that appears to be sagging in the middle.. |
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Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate. The shortest street in York with the longest name. |
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The Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate sign. |
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The British version of the dollar store. They're everywhere! |
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The York Minster. This was taken at about 9:45pm and its still not dark yet. |
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The York Minster. |
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The York Minster |
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Looking up at the York Minster - see the gargoyles? |
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The York Minster - panorama |
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The York Minster - panorama |
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The York Minster - panorama |
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The York Minster - panorama |
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The York Minster - panorama |
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The York Minster - panorama |
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A Tandoori night, where we ate dinner our second night in York. |