Old York

Went to the original town on York on Tuesday. It's a old walled roman city with lots of old narrow streets in the north England; it is also home to York Minster Abbey. All in all it was a very cool and historical place.

First night in town we got ourselves a B&B and then went out to a pub (it's becoming our thing). After a few pints the bars were closing so we made for home..along the way we passed Cliffords tower. We decided to race up the to top of the grassy mound..which as you can tell from the photo is actually quite steep. And, when you consider the several pints in us and the long, wet grass on the hill it was actually quite hard to make any progress up at all..you had to grab wet clumps of grass in your hands and kick your feet into the side the hill to take one step.

So after struggling at it for several minutes we all made it up. Then the light bulb went off.. "wait a second, this hill is really slippery...maybe we can slide down~!" so we did..it was awesome actually, just jumped at the top and land on you butt and within a second you're rocketing down the hill, sliding on the wet grass, it was like a water slide sans water. Up again and down again. Steve and I must have done 15 runs before we realized the girls had wandered off. So, wet and grass stained we ran after them.

next day we went back into town and visited the Abbey and got to climb the tower. here's some pics:

Outside the abbey.

Inside the Abbey. This place is massive and incredibly ornate.

View from top of the main tower some 260 spiral steps up (makes you dizzy climbing actually since you're always turning the same direction)