The morning after Thanksgiving I took a trip to
visit Joe in Lancaster! Joe unfortunately broke his foot 8 weeks ago
and is still on crutches, something I can relate to very well. The
bus on Friday from Glasgow to Lancaster was about 3 hours and dropped
me off at Lancaster University which was convenient. Joe and I took
the city bus to city centre and spent a few hours at a coffee shop
and a bar before we met Dan at the train station. The next morning we
took a bus to the Lakes District! December is definitely an off
season to visit, but the weather was nice and we even saw sunshine on
the bus ride there. I would have liked to see Beatrix Potters' Hill Top farm, but it is closed in the winter. Our first stop was in Keswick. Here we ate a long
lunch and walked around a Christmas market. After Keswick, we took
the bus to Ambleside where Alice and her Dad were staying. We met up
with the shortly before getting back on the bus to Lancaster. It was
a long day of bus riding but the scenery was beautiful!
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| Crooked view from the bus |
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| Another bus shot |
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| Market in Keswick |
Sunday morning we took a train from
Lancaster to Manchester, then Manchester to York where we would stay
for the night. We ate lunch in at an Italian restaurant in a building
from the 1700s. This site has much better pictures than what I
took...
http://www.york360.co.uk/restaurants/ask.
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| Shaun in the water pitcher |
After lunch we found our hostel, The Fort Boutique, it was one of the
nicest hostels I’ve stayed in so far. We were in an 8 person mixed
room with only 1 other American girl. We could walk to everything
from the hostel too, or crutch... I visited a store called, The Cat
Gallery, it had a mix of cat toys and cat artwork and did not live up
to the Katten Kabinet in Amsterdam.
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| Creepy cats... |
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| Joe has 4 blankets on top! |
Dan, Joe, and I went to a few
English pubs before we ate dinner. I had Yorkshire pudding for
dinner! Aka Thanksgiving in a pie crust! It was very good. There was
a live band playing at the restaurant below our hostel, we enjoyed a
few songs while eating sticky toffee pudding before we were all off
to bed. But sleep didn’t come quickly as the band played for a
while and we could hear them very well being situated just above.
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| Hmm...looks like Amsterdam. This is River Ouse which runs through York. |
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| A strange window display. |
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| Turkey Yorkshire pudding! |
On Monday we spent a few hours at the
York Minster, the largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe. Dan
and I payed a little extra to take 275 steps up into the tower. It
spiraling steps and width of the hallways didn’t allow for Joe to
make it on crutches :( The view from the top overlooked all of
Lancaster and the surrounding area. The weather was not great, it was
cloudy, but it was worth all the steps! That afternoon we took the
train back to Lancaster, and Dan and I took the bus back to Glasgow!
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| Store on Shambles street |
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| Shambles |
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| Everything is crooked!! Including the camera... |
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| View from the tower |
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| A sample of all the steps |
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| The city wall |
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| Shaun rides the train! |
Fortunately, my 1 class I did have today got canceled due to strike
action so I had time to write this post and sleep in!! Thankfully I was in England when the Glasgow helicopter crash happened. The city cancelled the St. Andrew celebrations on Saturday because of the crash. If you did not hear about this you can read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25195952
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