We woke up early to head back into York. We took the bus into town, and got off at Picadilly Street like yesterday. We walked from there to the Jorvik Viking Center. It is actually the site of a Viking excavation, and they had a tour through a recreation and part of the excavation. The tour was just a big diorama. The new thing was that they had some smells of the time (which were pretty nasty). The dioramas were pretty cheesy – seemed kind of low budget. The coolest stuff was the exhibitions at the end – actual artifacts from the dig. There was a recovered skeleton that had all kinds of damage, and they even had a guestimate on how the skelton got damaged.
From there we went to the wall outside the city and walked around town. The view was pretty impressive. We took the bus back to our car, and then drove south towards London. We made a couple of pit stops and then pulled into Oxford and our next B&B. The B&B was right outside Oxford on a sheep ranch, with pretty nice rooms. We ate dinner at a local pub, and then went back to the B&B to sleep.
The next day we packed up our stuff and drove into town to return the car and catch a flight back home.
