What a day! On the bus at 8, off the bus at 8:30, back on again at 3 pm. I have never spent so much time in a hotel lobby. Our students were great at entertaining themselves, and Explorica kept us in pop and coffee and bought us lunch at the hotel. We thought we'd only get away around supper time, so the whole troop headed off for a march to the nearest shopping area, about 2 miles away, only to get a text 40 minutes into the walk to turn around and that a bus was 20 minutes away. The running scene from Chariots of Fire comes to mind as students came flying up the road.
It was then 2 1/2 hours to York, where unfortunately everything was closed by our arrival. We saw enough to know we want to go back - the centre of town is surrounded by a huge medieval wall which you can walk, has tonnes of narrow streets and shopping, and the cathedral was really breathtaking. Some of us even managed to fit in a boat tour.
Being able to just get a taste of it made us extra sad at not being able to stay.
Tomorrow the wake up call is for 5:45 as we head to Scotland. Here's hoping we only need one bus to get there!
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