York, just lovely!
Friday, July 17th, 2009Last year in Egypt I had travelled for about a week with the wonderful Hugh and Brian from the UK and American respectively. Hugh was now studying in York so thought it would be a good chance to stop by for a brief visit and say hello while I was up that end of the country. I was off buses after the long ride to Scotland and more willing to to pay a bit extra for an uber comfy train. I do love trains. So only 3 hours later I pulled into the York station where I wandered into town to meet Hugh. Even the short walk into town I could tell York was a beautiful city.
Full of old cobblestoned streets, remains of old city wall and a huge cathedral dominating the city. After around a year since our Egypt trip it was great to see Hugh again who came to meet me, we bused out to the university to his halls to get rid of my ever growing pack. Hugh is ever the gentleman and had arranged for me to stay in one of his friends room while she was away for the night-perfect! He cooked me some lunch in their communal kitchen and told me a bit more about the student life of York university, it seems like a pretty sweet deal staying in the halls everyone having nice rooms with bathrooms and big shared kitchens.
We spent the afternoon wandering around the town, down some back streets, into some cute little shops and eventually made it into the big cathedral, or Minister I think its called. We finished off the tour with coffee and cake from a cafe before walking home via the supermarket and heading back to uni where Hugh cooked me dinner! It really makes a difference wandering round with someone who knows the place and where to look, and York is really just very nice, small and quaint but busy and vibrant. The uni is a bit more modern and not exactly Cambridge but the whole place seems like a good location for a few years to study. After dinner we headed down to the pub with a few other people to meet up with Hugh’s girlfriend and sit around being students, drinking too much on a weekday night. Somehow I ended up booking 7.30am train to Cambridge the next day so it was a difficult early morning start off down to the train station for the 2 hour ride south to my next university experience with another travelling buddy
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