Marsh-Mel-O's Adventures: UK Roadtrip

5th October

This morning we had breakfast down stairs at our hotel, before heading out to explore York. We couldn't get much closer into the main town as the York Minster was literally a 2 minutes walk down the street.

The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England. The title "minster" is attributed to churches established in the Anglo-Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title. Rather than entering then with the truckload of tourists, we decided we would return and attend the Evensong service sung by the Quire at 5.15 that evening.

So we continued to explore York and its historic streets and alleyways. We found lots of little shops and things to look at throughout the day. We visited the St Martin-le-Grand Church, the Shambles, including the 'Shop That Must Not Be Named', the York Chocolate Story, Clifford Tower and Jorvik Viking Centre.

We returned to the hotel amidst all of this touring to have some lunch from our never ending food box, before heading back out again. It wasn't raining today and the sky was clear, so it was a lovely day to wander the town.

We finished the evening by attending the Evensong service at the York Minster. A beautiful service, narrated and accompanied by a male church choir. After the service, we tried the new craze around York - a roast dinner in a Yorkshire pudding wrap. Mum and I shared a pork and vegetable one, literally roast pork, beans, potato, gravy and crackling in a big Yorkshire pudding, and it was delicious!

To finish off the day, we dropped Granny Nanny off at the hotel to read her book and Mum and I headed out for a Ghost Tour around York. Lasting just over an hour, we wandered York in the darkness, hearing some of the stories that surround the city.