After a mentally exhausting week writing three essays for my classes…I got to enjoy a short weekend trip to York from Saturday to Sunday! While on the long bus ride there and back, I finally was able to completely read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson :)
Saturday:
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| The lovely English country side on the drive to York |
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| York Minster |
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| Church of St. Michael le Belfrey |
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| Viking Festival |
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| Me and the Vikings |
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| The famous Bettys tearoom in York |
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| Church of St. Michael le Belfrey |
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York Minster
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| Gargoyle |
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| The organ |
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| The King's Screen |
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| The Rose Window |
The York Minster Choir
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| The West Window |
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| The Chapter House |
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| The Rose Window |
The Undercroft of York Minster:
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| The Heart of the Roman Fortress |
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| Re-used columns as part of a porch for a post-Roman Building |
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| Pieces of the Norman crypt; year 1160 |
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| Bible given by King Charles I |
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| The York Gospel made by the Anglo-Saxon monks at Canterbury around 1020 |
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| Clifford's Tower |
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| Maple Walnut Crepe :) |
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| Sour Strawberry rope of licorice |
Great street performer playing "Mad World"
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My bunk-mate, Minji, in our hostel room
(which is much more comfortable than my room at Roehampton University) |
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| View from our room |
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| Tried my first Kangaroo burger. It was tasty |
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| Shot night haha |
Sunday:
Fountains Abbey is a world heritage site and is one of the best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It was made in 1132 and operated for over 400 years until Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.
The Water Garden at Fountains Abbey
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| The Temple of Piety; first called the Temple of Hercules |
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
It is an architecturally significant Elizabethan country house built from 1590-1597 for the Bess of Hardwick. It shows the earliest examples of the English interpretation of the Renaissance style of architecture.
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| Bess of Hardwick's royal granddaughter, Arbella Stuart |
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| Muniments to the Hardwick Estates |
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| The Tobit Tabia Carpet (1579) |
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| William Cecil Lord of Burghley, James VI of Scotland, Robert Cecil |
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Lady Arbella Stuart.
After being forbidden to marry because she was 4th in line to the English throne, she married William Seymour (6th in line to the throne) in secret. They were both sent to the Tower of London, in which Arbella escaped before. She was so distraught from her separation from William, she killed herself by starvation. |
I had such a great time during this trip! It was just what I needed after a stressful week of study. Only have 16 more weeks left abroad, so time to crunch in some more adventures!!
