Last Day in York

 SONG - Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli   

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Day 29 - Tues. May 28

Late in the morning we went to our favorite little coffee shop over the bridge towards town. It’s raining but cozy inside of the shop. Mr. B had veggie quiche and I had a croissant sandwich with goat cheese, carmelized onions & fresh spinach-yummm- and we shared a lemon & blueberry muffin. Double yummmm!

I ordered us tickets to get into the cathedral at 1:45 and when we arrived we went straight in. A lot of beauty inside of the cathedral but at times it made me sad thinking about all of the money spent to glorify individuals who were buried there, when people were starving, homeless & sick all around.  

But the stained glass was incredible and the carvings impressive!  

I did love this one of the faithful dog at the foot of his human companion. 

The “Heart of York” was lovely too! 

Walking around the side of the cathedral there was a statue of Constantine who was proclaimed Roman Emperor in York in the year 306. 

Hard to believe this town was around in 306 AD

Since it wasn’t raining we walked around The Shambles again and found the Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate this time. The fire tosser was still there but this time he was tossing for from a very high unicycle!!!

Still very crowded so we had a cold drink in the market square and then went to the local grocery store to pick up a few things.  While I went back to our room, Mr. B headed to our car to try to consolidate things since we will be driving to London tomorrow and turning in the car. 

Tonight is Italian food at La Piazza Antica.  I think we had a few too many meat pies & pub food so we are in need of a break. 

And this was a good one - great food, the couple next to us were from St. Helena, beautiful timbered building and we had a singing Italian waiter! What more could one want?

Oh and wonderful wine too!  Mr. B was delighted……