York

So it looks like I totally forgot to say anything about our two days in York and Kenilworth. Martin wanted to go to York, and I wanted to see Peter and Sylvia Hogarth, our friends from the sabbatical year in York way back when Martin was only one year old. And we had to figure out how to get us to our respective airports (Heathrow and Stansted) on Wednesday morning. So, we drove Monday from Lincoln to York, a 1.5 hour drive, and went directly to the Yorvik Museum, the reconstructed street (Coppergate) from the Viking village they unearthed when they were building the shopping center above. It's been renovated and updated, and was much more interesting than I remember it. I'd gotten reserved tickets for 11:00 a.m., and we were of course late, partly because I missed the Park and Ride place and ended up parking actually in York (9 pounds 20 pence for four hours! or maybe it was 9 pounds 10 pence...it was a LOT). But they let us go to the head of the queue at the museum anyway, and it was good; I have a couple of decent photos from the visit.

After we left the Yorvik Museum, we met Peter and Sylvia for lunch, and then we visited the Minster, after which we left for Kenilworth, partly because our time was up at the car park. The photo just up there to the right is the Shambles in York, and photo below is the Minster with Peter and Sylvia in front of it.