Tuesday travels. . . .Some aspects of our trips into York

Because we were staying so close to York we made several trips there for sightseeing and shopping. You can just spy Marks and Spencers in the background. I just loved the name of this street. This particular day we were just browsing in town and the thing that strikes you most is the varied architecture….

A puzzling piece of sewing.

When we were in York on our visit to the UK I went to the York Quilt Museum to see a Kaffe Fassett exhibition.  Unfortunately the day I went to see the exhibition the museum was closed to change over the exhibition to a new one.  I was really disappointed and decided that I would…

York Railway Museum . . . Tuesday travels

On a previous visit to York we visited the National Railway Museum but didn’t spend much time there, this time we spent most of the day in the museum and found there was still plenty to see although my husband was disappointed that Stephenson’s Rocket was not in operation this time. When we are on…

Tuesday travels. . . National Railway Museum York

We had visited York on our first trip to the UK in 2003 but we didn’t visit the National Railway Museum so we were insistent that we visit on our trip in 2012.  We were lucky because my brother and sister-in-law were staying in a house swap in Yorkshire and we spent several days with…