Its been a while since I wrote about our weekends. Not surprising, actually, because most of our weekends don’t seem to be something to write home about, these days!
Last year, I enrolled Poohi in a swimming class, and that I think partially contributed ย to the demise of the weekend posts. Just the other day, husband and I were horrified to find out that we did not even make one day trip to York last year. York is our neighbouring, cute, historical town. We love going there, walking around, walking by the river.. It is even better in spring and summer, but that never stopped us from going there in Autumn and Winter. This last year, every saturday goes off in finishing off Poohi’s work, rushing to the swimming lesson, and once we are back, we end up wasting time over lunch, and before you know it, the day is over!
Last Saturday, we decided to go to York. No wasting time having lunch and stuff, lets just get going and grab a bite outside- was the plan. It was freezing, but sunny – the mere feel of sun, makes the whole world look cheerful and happy! And the whole world also looks like it is out to enjoy the day ๐ but in the opposite direction. Look!
Normally, we drive to York and then spend the same amount time trying to find a parking space. This time we decided to use the Park and Ride facility. We always thought of trying it out but never did. So we parked the car and got onto the bus to take us to the city centre.
Public Transport is so much more fun, isn’t it? At least it is for me ๐ I love getting into buses and pretending that we are on a real holiday ๐
Now, while this trip was all suddenly decided, we did have a plan. We have been to the York Minster loads of times, we had never made the trip up the tower. Most of the time, we end up parking somewhere far away, walk through all the little lanes, and are exhausted by the time we reach the Minster. This time, we had a one point agenda. Climb up the Tower. So as soon as we reached, we rushed to buy the tickets, only to be told that our daughter needed to be 8 before she could be allowed up there… Now, having no option to leave her behind, we decided to just take pictures and walk around all those quaint little lanes, just as we do every time that we are in York.
The York Minster from all sorts of angles( to bore you all to death :))
Outside..
And inside..
And some more.. doesn’t it look majestic?
Since climbing the tower did not happen, we decided to do the other thing we always planned and never did. Walking on the City Walls. ย Apparently York has more city walls intact than any other English city. So off we went. Fun time we had, and a history lesson as well, because Poohi wanted to know everything about why York has city walls.. Going through the pictures, I realized that I had just one picture without any of us – that’s what happens when Husband has the camera- he does not remember to take blog pics ๐
Something cute(that we found cute), we found while on that wall..
The sunset far away…..
Finally we came to the end – of one part of the walls, anyway. And off we went through the little lanes, dotted with cute shops.. And after all the walking, we went into a cute little cafe, and had a full Yorkshire Tea, complete with scones with clotted cream and all. Tummy and soul satisfied, we walked back to the bus stop to take us to where our car was parked. It was -2 deg, but we had the greatest time!
On Sunday, because all the walking was not enough for us, we decided to go to a nearby park, and go on a nature walk. It was a cold and frosty morning – one of the first really cold days this winter. Everything looked like they had been dusted by a fine sprinkling of icing sugar. Just the perfect weather for a walk beside the lake.
Turns out, we were not the only folks out to enjoy the day..
And look frosted rock….
After all the walking, we balanced it out nicely with bread rolls, bread pakodas, mix veggie pakodas and gulab jamuns – Can’t take the risk of being too healthy, can we?
Beautiful pictures! Loved the finishing touch…the last two lines!
Thank you, Sandhya ๐
You just described the perfect weekend! The outdoors, some history and good food! Lovely!!! Great pictures. I need to move to the UK ๐
Uk is a great place that way.. Especially the historical bit…
Also, I’ve changed the comment settings, I think u shd be able to comment now. Still not sure what the problem was though.
I am able to comment now ๐ Thanks loads!
Wah! What a super weekend…that last line….that takes the kill ๐
England is so beautiful na?
England is beautiful.. I think I will miss all the green space that we have here when we return to India.
Looks like that was a real good walk ๐ the photos reminds me of the time at Europe..The country is blessed with climate and the country sides are so beautiful
Yes, it is quite similar, sin’t it? Although England has it’s own character, which is quite different from a lot of European countries.
Gah to you!! Made me all nostalgic for UK ๐ฆ
You should come here now – come on a holiday before we leave the UK. Stay with us, I ‘ll take you around, and bake for you ๐
Oh wow…yum yum!!
How long are you around anyway? some more months?
Will need to save up the budget for it, y’know!
Till July. If everything goes as per plan.
Pah!! Never mind… won’t be able to come before that. I shall see you in bangalore for the same cake! ๐
I had visited York when I was in UK. It is such a lovely city and the York minster is a beautiful piece of architecture…
It is, isn’t it? We go there a lot, and we are always awed by the York Minster!
The trip sounds so invitingI tell you. Wish I could get a day to relax like that.
Sigh!!!
Lovely pics BTW ๐
It is lovely to have a day to do what pleases us ๐ It was a nice change for all of us.
Beautiful pics smitha.Wish i get to visit this place…..
You sure will, Sari!
Lovely picture.. and a balanced trip.. with good food and great walks
Thank you, Jyoti, and welcome here.
Pictures are so beautiful Smitha ๐ Loved them ๐ Surely a place to visit ๐
Did Poohi enjoyed the walk??
She did, Kanagu ๐ She enjoys walking just as much as we do ๐ Thankfully ๐
Enjoyed your post and the pics. Looks like a wonderful place for a weekend visit. Pakodas and gulab jamun! Mmm.. got me drooling now.
It’s a lovely place, Sumitra.. It’s got something for everybody..
A perfect weekend… ๐ And mine starts now…. ๐
I hope you had a great one too ๐
That sounds like a lovely weekend. And those photographs are gorgeous!
England is so beautiful, sigh! I love all things England, and want to visit it sometime in my life. ๐
I guess, England does feel lovely, when one is not living here, in the middle of the constant rain and bad weather ๐ It is gorgeous on sunny days, I have to admit ๐
Beautiful pictures ๐
Thanks LF!
Wow, inspired, We have been lazy to explore any thing of the country side! I know we must we must! And we must not wait for the weather to get better We should just go!
“blog pics” hahahaha!! only us bloggers will understand the value of those..but now D has began to understand what are personal pics, facebook pics, blog pics and flickr pics ๐