The Purple Penguin

A leisurely  breakfast, we then decided to stroll to the Minister. Went to the one of the sections of the city, up a temporary stair to the top of the wall and walked along the back of the Treasury House and to the Bootham Bar and down off the wall. Then along to the Minister and spent about an hour walking about inside, before we decided we needed tea.

Walked about York looking at tea rooms – Betty’s was packed with a huge queue out the door, so we carried on and found a small little place which was lovely. Had a strawberry cream tea which came with a little dish of fresh strawberries as well as the clotted cream, scone, and strawberry jam. Lovely. From tea we carried on toward the Jorvik Centre, but then gave that a miss as the queue was down the street! So onwards to Clifford’s Tower, stopping under an archway to wait for the rain to stop.

Walked around the base of the tower and headed toward the Castle Museum which again had a queue way out the door. So, after waiting in the doorway of the Crown Court for the rain to stop, we headed the rest of the way around the tower, only to see a sightseeing bus. Which looked dry. At least the downstairs bit looked dry. The open top bit looked a bit wet, but downstairs not so much. So we decided to see the city by dry bus.

The first bus we got on, an elderly person had had an accident. So we stopped and got off and the bus went away to be cleaned. The next bus came and was actually much better – a live tour guide rather than a tape. So we rode around, the skies opened again, but we had fun looking at York going past in the rain. We actually rode it around one and a half times, getting off near our hotel at the end.

Got back to the hotel and had a bit of a rest then headed to the little Asian restaurateur near the hotel with excellent food. Had a sit and a visit with friend from US before heading off to bed.