A trip into York today so we reminisced by walking the walls & strolling down the Shambles. It’s been a long while since we last visited York. 

York .....
Lancelot Blackburne .... priest & pirate!
Lancelot spent his early life sailing the high seas as a buccaneer, either as their captain or as a pirate himself. In 1681 he was paid £20 by Charles II for “secret services”. However, later in his life he became the Archbishop of York. 

York is the home of the National Railway Museum ..... it’s brilliant!

If you’re a Scot and you’re planning on visiting the historic city of York then visit on a Sunday as there is a law in York that it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow ..... except on Sundays! (Ancient law, no longer practised or upheld)

York is the UK’s home of chocolate - KitKats are still produced in York with 3 million bars made a day ..... so that means more than 500 Kitkat fingers are eaten every second. 

Constantine arrived in Britain with his dad Constantinius around 305 AD. Constantius was sent to deal with the troublesome Picts north of Hadrian’s Wall. However, Constantius died the following year in York, leaving his son Constantine to succeed him as Emperor. As he was unable to return to Rome, Constantine became the first Emperor to crowned in Eboracum, as York was known in Roman times. 

Shambles is a old street in York with overhanging timber framed buildings, some dating back as far as the fourteenth century, and is estimated to be one of the best preserved medieval shopping streets in Europe. It was a butchers market at one point with twenty five butchers shops located along the street, none of which remain. Today, you can buy a Harry Potter wand, a Yankee candle, some fudge or craft beer. Or pop into the amazing and heart-wrenching shrine of St Margaret Clitherow.

There are so many reasons to visit York.