York Cathedral * Railway Museum * York Abbey * The Shambles
Church this morning was in the most tradition looking LDS chapel we have seen yet. We smiled when we pulled into the parking lot that looked like it could have been placed in Sandy, Utah. There's something about hearing people bare testimony in an English accent. It feels so eloquent and they have great word choice. We felt very welcomed in this ward (as we have felt every Sunday). Many of the members were away on vacation so the classes were all small, but great just the same. In YW and RS there were even nice handouts, SLC style.
We did our best at fasting, but fasting and traveling are difficult to do together. We had an early Sunday dinner and then decided to walk around York a bit and visit the free Railway Museum. The railway museum was fun - it was in the old train station and had trains from the 1850s to the modern bullet train on display. There were Royal train coaches, hospital coaches from WWI, coal cars, engines, passenger cars, mail cars, and then all sorts of train and train station stuff. This kids, especially Charlie, really liked it. They commented that we have seen a car museum, a naval museum, and now a train museum (they left out all the art museums).
York is quaint and the architecture is lovely. We enjoyed the large cathedral from the outside because we weren't in the mood to sit through Evensong - it being Sunday - or "donate" to go in. It's impressive, built in the 1200s it took 250 years to complete. Instead, we visited a destroyed Abbey (the work of Henry the VIII again) and walked the medieval wall. We wandered some of the pedestrian only streets and landed in an area known as the Shambles a street in town from the 1400s that still has large hooks in the eves where the butchers could hang their meat.
The evening was topped off with watching the Olympics - which is fun in another country as all the highlights are of British athletes. We have no idea how the Americans are doing. We were so disappointed to watch the 4 time Olympic English fencer loose in the semi finals to the Russians. The English have not won a medal in fencing in 50 years!
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| York Cathedral |
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| Railway Museum |
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| York Abbey |
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| Lara the tour guide |
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