York

We took a bus from our campsite into York, it was a Saturday at the start of the school summer holidays and the place was heaving. Especially the Shambles – it was really lovely all the same.

We walked the walls around the city and explored the shops around the medieval cobbled streets of the ‘shambles’ the shops are believed to be the inspiration for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter series.

In November 2022, 2 months after Queen Elizabeth II died, a statue was added to the front of York minster

Completed in August for her Platinum Jubilee the unveiling was delayed due to her death.

Went to Bettys Teashop for lunch, a lovely cafe, popular with queues out of the door. Once seated and with lunch ordered Mandy said “it looks and feels like an old cruise liner, like the Queen Mary we stayed on in America” upon reading the information, it was, in fact, based on the Queen Mary