8 Oct 2023

 Packed up from Marilla's

Made a yummy bacon, cheese, and spinach omelette for lunch.

Didn't get away till like 2

Drove to York, wandered around. It's a walled city with a beautiful minster, lovely old old buildings and a Roman column from 71 AD

We went to the Jorvik Viking Centre and did a little ride-through thing where they had animatronic reconstructions of people and scenes based on the archaeological studies of the site. If was fun, if a little dinky. They had an exhibition of some of the artifacts dug up after which was fascinating. Skeletons, jewellery, dice, clothings and tools.

We walked around and tasted some gin. I bought a little three pack. I hope I can get it back home to share with Murray. I got the chocolates and orange which was amazing and the old tom and the navy strength 'Outlaw'. They also had Rhubarb, London Dry, Bloody Orange, Roman Fruits... it was a fun tasting, and the guy was really entertaining. He's currently in a stage play of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

We went to the Guy Fawkes pub for dinner which is a converted old house where Guy Fawkes was born. Shared betroot cured salmon for starters and the dessert - stickey toffee pudding. I had roast chicken with yorkshire pudding and veggies. It was a lot of food!

We walked around at dusk - unfortunately the wall is closed at dusk, but just walking around was lovely. Beautiful buildings.

We visited the coolest little pub upstairs from a bottle shop. It was like a medieval tavern and I would die to play a game of dnd in there with friends.

8,512 steps

5.72 km

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