we went york last last wkend. beautiful place! we joined the free voluntary tour. the tour guide brought us around, not many places but he really explained alot in details. all the history. i din catch all though, sometimes i just drifted off, sometimes i just couldnt hear. if i've the time, really wish to check out more abt york.
my fingers and toes were really frozen. why is york so cold? i've never experienced such chill be4. it was drizzling, the first time i felt that my feet were gone. first time i realise that my socks and shoes werent enuff. i need boots. becos there's a service, we could get in the york minister for free. it's really a grand church. as explained to us, it's so big that building a brick roof is impossible, so they've to use wood and risk it being destroyed in times of fire. they spent huge sum of $$ every year to maintain it. we paid to go to the undercroft though, like a museum, lots of antiques. the york minister was built on the land used by many and for many purposes. all the remains of the roman fortress, Viking, Norman and medieval carvings. simply splendid.
a very traditional town. i love the shambles. so cool! the streets look very different from other cities. the houses were all wooden ones until the time when a fire disaster took place. there are still evidences of burnt wood! they actually hired pple from...erm..i forgot which country belgium?france?denmark? argh i really forgot but it's around that area in europe, to show them how to build houses made of bricks.
and there was a long period of time when there's no water, pple just drink beer.
lunch, we went to betty's tea house. we had heard that it's worth a try when we go york, so well..we went. the ambience is really nice. it's a big place, 2 levels and yet there's still a long queue outside. it's really a nice place to have tea. if only i'm a tai tai. then can always go such places.haha. yup it's really too ex. jf, ht and edel each ordered the set, 12.50P each. well it really looked appealing. but it only has 1st level: 4 slices of bread with filing of cos, cheese and salmon i think; 2nd level: 1 bread with butter and jam; 3rd level: 2 kinds of desserts, some cakes and pastries and a pot of tea. of cos i dun want to spend it so i bought the fat rascal! haha cute name rite? but it's just a big cookie, costs me 3.25P that's 10 sing! but well at least it's filing and nice. and it's one of the zhao pai there.
at night the town really looked ghostly haha..those old buildings, orange lightings, shadows etc. yup so of cos there are many ghost tours, but we dun haf the time to join. shops closed at 5 thus we walked slowly to the train station and rot there till our 7.45 train back to newcastle.
