Vacation

No visit to York is complete without walking through the narrow street of The Shambles:

That’s not a camera effect, the buildings really do lean that close together!

I’ve always been impressed by the Eagle Owl, years ago I visited the Hawk Conservancy and had a Polaroid taken while an Eagle Owl sat on my (gloved) arm … today unexpectedly in the middle of York, were many Owls and a chance once again to be next to an Eagle Owl!

 

In York for a couple days, which has much of it’s original Roman city walls still solid and walkable – so we did!

Inside the walls, remains of various York Castles over the centuries, including Cliffords Tower which, on top of it’s man-made hill, offers scary but impressive views of York City:

 

We can see the wall where we’re staying too – it’s garden backs on to it!