York 5 - 6 Mar 17

The C&MC site at York is situated next to the River, very close to the centre of the city. It is, accordingly, a very popular site with a huge turnover. At opening time there is always a queue of Motorhomes and Shed-Draggers, but the staff have entry down to a fine art, albeit the draggers tend to mess around forever unhitching and moving their sheds. We drove in, found the first empty slot and brewed up whilst others were still faffing around playing that funny windy-down-the-legs game and filling their aquarolls.

We walked into York. It rained.  We got wet. We went to the pub, an awful Wetherspoons which had no real ale worth drinking (can you believe it?). Getting wet was preferable to staying there, so we found another pub and settled in for the duration. 

Getting ready to go into the cellar to find the ghostly Roman Legion

The Treasurer's House

A bit of Simony perhaps?

On Monday the weather was fairly decent so we had a good walk around York, visited the Treasurers House, explored the cellar and heard the story of the Ghostly Roman Legion, climbed Clifford Tower and went to the  Minster, but as the so-and-so's wanted £10 to go into a church we stuck a holy two fingers up to the robbers and went elsewhere. I really detest seeing turnstiles at the entry of churches. They should be ashamed.

Signatures of the Rolling Stones in the splendid Eagle and Child Pub on Petergate

On Tuesday it was up early and a leisurely short drive across to Harrogate.

Tha' can buy t'flat cap here to make thee look reet Yorkshireish