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« on: February 16, 2008, 11:03:52 PM » |
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The Vikings are coming!
If you've wondered where Taz & I have been for the last 2 days -did anyone notice we weren't here? -we've been Ooop North for a bit of a break. We've both been on holiday from work this week but had lots of other stuff to do, so grabbed a couple of days away before we go back to work on Monday.
We ended up in the City of York, & very nice it was too.
Beautiful buildings, lots of history n stuff -& loads of hairy blokes in woolly cloaks & pointy helmets. Turned out we'd arrived in the middle of their annual Viking festival. There were marauding hordes of axe wielding invaders everywhere you looked -doing their shopping, waiting for the bus, having a quick pint in the pub before they had to get back to plundering & pillaging. Everywhere.
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2008, 11:08:16 PM » |
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There was a long boat moored on the river -well, a short boat actually. A third size replica. Those Vikings that couldn't fit on it arrived by coach & private car.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2008, 11:10:29 PM » |
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Much merriment ensued.
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2008, 11:11:16 PM » |
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This chap had knitted his beard into a rather fetching hat.
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« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2008, 11:15:08 PM » |
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There was a Viking battle re-enactment beside the castle at 3pm -which we missed because we were wandering around the museum at the time. Apparently not all the invaders died though cos they did it again at 6.
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« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2008, 11:16:54 PM » |
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We did the tourist-posing-next-to-old-buildings thing.
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« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2008, 11:18:41 PM » |
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And the tourists-walking-along-the-city-wall thing.
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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2008, 11:20:06 PM » |
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And even the tourists-looking-at-big-church thing.
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« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2008, 11:21:56 PM » |
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I didn't know York has an "Eye", the same as London's.
That's the railway station in the foreground.
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« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2008, 11:22:43 PM » |
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Lots of street entertainers.
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« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2008, 11:23:28 PM » |
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Lots of streets.
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« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2008, 11:25:44 PM » |
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This bloke was doodling on the streets.
-Has he just painted someone flashing their bottom?!
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« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2008, 11:27:57 PM » |
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And on our way home tonight we passed this trike on the A1M. That's it, I've used up all me piccies now.  |
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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2008, 12:05:13 AM » |
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those streets are a shambles
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2008, 01:25:39 AM » |
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didnt you drop in on Mick?
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