york, scarborough and durham

hello everybeary, in the last week of september melody, junior and fizz popp travelled up to york for their holibobs *passes you over to melody*

melody; hello! hello! i’m very excited to share my first fuzzy holibobs *waves*

on monday we were due to get into york at about 11:30am but because we missed our first connection and the second train kept stopping/was on a go slow we were an hour and 45 minutes late! not the best start but after seeing the weather forcast for the week (rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain) at least it was sunny.

we had a walk along the wall after dropping the cases off at the purple palace. in between the showers (good job i’ve got my caggle) we went in a few shops and finally found our way to the minster.

i think there’s a minster around here somewhere…

i scream the popps scream we all scream for ice cream! oh, it’s not open

we accidentally had nuggets and chips for tea.

we were thinking about going to scarborough on tuesday, but it gave rain for about 2pm so we stayed in york. we went a different way round and saw different shops and buildings.

we found an old fashioned shop of allsorts in which the popps bought some tin buckets to take to the beach (when we go…)

merchant adventurers hall – a lovely old yellow building

in the museum garden – there’s still a few flowers out

unfortunately it started raining at 2pm so we went back to the hotel

dinner was a falafel & hummus ciabatta with fries.

we caught a train to scarborough on wednesday then immediately caught another to filey (15 minutes further). it’s quite a small town with quite a long beach. as it was a lovely sunny day we had an ice cream as soon as we could find one. then it was time to sit on the beach while the popps built their sandfort.

after a couple of hours in filey, it was time to catch a train back to scarborough. sydney had told us about a fun arcade game called pacman, so once we’d found it we changed a whole pound into lots of tuppences and began to play. we were there quite a long time trying to spend a pound! the more we put in the more we got out – it was indeed great fun! then it was time to cross over to the beach

i could see the lighthouse from the beach, but it was quite a long walk round to it…

we found somewhere to eat on the way back – i had spaghetti lentil ragu (no chips) – it was quite nice all the same. then it was time to make our way back to the train station before it got dark

it was already raining when we woke up on thursday so i decided to stay in the hotel while the humans & popps did some shopping *yawns*

dinner was a ~~humorous~~ hummus salady thing with warm bread sticks (still no chips!)

it was fine again on friday so we caught a train to durham

a bit of the castle – we weren’t allowed in

here are a few pictures of the inside…

when we came out of the cathedral we had a walk about

it was the first time the human had been to durham and it was a bit up-py and down-y – and there were a LOT of people!

dinner was pretend fish (tofoo) and chips (hooray for chips!)

saturday was our final day, we’d booked to go to the train museum for 10am when it opened (luckily fuzzy had seen that you had to book in advance!)

here are a few pictures…

after the museum we went to find a place to eat, but there was no room at the inn so we had to get something from m&s – i had a salad and pretend egg (tofoo) & cress sandwich and sat eating it under a tree in the rain. the rain was set for the day and as we’d checked out of the hotel, decided to catch an earlier train home.

despite the rain we still had a good time. bye bye york – it was nice to see you!

bye bye everybody, bye bye *waves*