We got up late and took a ride to the supermarket to buy some take home haggis and Scotch for my dad. I saw there was some “Guinness Bitter” for sale – didn’t buy any but I thought it might be nice to buy before I left. We also bought the English (British) version of the first Harry Potter – it even had a different title – “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. We headed back and said goodbye to Hamish and Claire Thom, and hit the road going south. It was a long journey because we went the scenic way and ahd to pass trucks and farm equipment on tight roads.
We stopped for some junk food at an English-style Quikstop and beer at the pub next door. From there we drove another hour or so south, and arrived at our B&B in York. We unpacked and took the bus into town.
York was a neat old town surrounded by a huge protective wall. We walked down some very small crooked streets and found a neat back-alley pub. After some beers and directions we headed to the tourist info center to buy tickets for a nighttime ghost tour. While we waited for the tour to start we explored York Minster – an incredibly huge cathedral that took more than 250 years to build. I snapped lots of digital pictures inside and out.
The tour began at 7:30 – we just had some Chinese food for dinner before – and went on the somewhat cheesy (OK, extremely cheesy) walking tour. Part of the effect was lost because it wasn’t dark yet. It doesn’t get dark here until 10 pm. After the tour we caught the bus back to the B&B to sleep.
