{"id":28136,"date":"2022-06-12T05:15:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=28136"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:33:12","slug":"york-day-2-england-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=28136","title":{"rendered":"York (Day 2), England \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 10th June 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 0 kms just walking around York, Yorkshire. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: York Minster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Caravan + Motorhome Club, York, \u00a351 pn, N53.95100, W01.07940<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 16 days @ \u20ac142 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another quiet and comfortable evening passes in what must be England\u2019s most expensive campsite. Feeling a little better this morning so we\u2019ll visit York Minster<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hats for chairs ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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How about a hedge around your pitch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Once again we cross the River Ouse passing Clifford\u2019s Tower and into the Old Town. We leave the traffic behind as most of the streets in here don\u2019t allow cars during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We get a good look at the Magistrate\u2019s Court, circa 1890<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old York is a labyrinth of old and new.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finding York Minster isn\u2019t difficult at 160m in length, 69m wide and 72m high, it\u2019s hard to miss. But a bit more difficult to photograph. The surrounding building and trees make a photo of the whole cathedral impossible with my iPhone. The picture above is merely the South Transept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The west entrance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If your interested the link I have provided above gives some excellent insight into the history of the building. York Minster\u2019s proper title is \u2019The Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of Saint Peter in York\u2019. Considered one of the largest of its type in northern Europe. It was completed in 1472, having been severely damaged by fire and re-built several times since then. If that\u2019s its name why is it called York Minster ? Well it was originally a missionary teaching church on the pilgrims route, the title is now honorific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pay \u00a312.50 pp entry and jump straight into a tour that\u2019s just commencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The west window (heart window) and entry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking east to the nave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From the crossover looking into the quire, the grand organ above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Also in the crossover this amazing clock sounded the hour with the figures of Knights turning to strike the chime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Set the iPhone on the floor of the Chapter House to get a special shot of it\u2019s amazing ceiling only to find a spoiler when I went to upload it. There she is !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What sort of morons wander around in a church with hats on ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cathedral clutter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More clutter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Quire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our guided tour concludes at the Great East Window (above), completed in 1408, it\u2019s considered the largest medieval stained glass window in England. The window cost \u00a350 of which \u00a310 was a bonus for completing it within 3 years. So we wander down to the crypt for a quick look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Crypt, the Tomb of Saint William, the patron saint of York. In the background a mosaic of Saint Peter. Yes it is a great photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This plinth stand outside the Minster. Constantine was Proclaimed Emperor of Rome here in 306 AD. He recognitioned the civil liberties of the Christian population in York and England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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York\u2019s memorial to the fallen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Shambles flower market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We\u2019ve made a day out of our visit to York Minster. The guided tour was free, but really interesting and our guide obviously passionate about the Cathedral and its history. I\u2019m glad to be walking home back across the river to the Hymer. We stop at a local butcher for some lamb loin chops for dinner, which proved to be well short of what we considered a nice lamb chop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that aside we enjoyed our day and look forward to tomorrow\u2019s adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even the geese are tired this late in the afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 10th June 2022 Travelled: 0 kms just walking around York, Yorkshire.  Visited: York Minster Stayed: Caravan + Motorhome Club, York, \u00a351 pn, N53.95100, W01.07940\u00a0 Budget: 16 days @ \u20ac142 per day Another quiet and comfortable evening passes in what must be England\u2019s most expensive campsite. Feeling a little better this morning so we\u2019ll visit York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30827,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions\/30827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}