The walled city of York

After our first day of driving in another country we made it to York, England. As I said in the previous post we are staying a few overnights at a local pub. Our first full day there we decided to go into York to wonder around. Part of the City of York in enclosed by a stone wall. The city was founded in 71 AD by the Romans. Due to many power struggles, a wall was built around the city for protection. The original wall was wooden but was eventually replaced by the current block wall. You can walk around the city along the top of the wall as you will see. We also took an open top trolley tour in the rain! Enjoy the beautiful city of York.

Part of the city wall

One of the many entrances to walk on top of the wall

Walking along the top of the wall

Some of the pretty gardens below the city wall

After our trolley tour we walked around downtown and ran across some street artist. 

Look who got picked to help out the street performer!
He is rockin the tutu

Dancing devil!

That is a real person on the bike, AMAZING!

Our second day in York we decided to drive to the coast. I mapped out a route to Bridlington Beach.  

Board walk along the coast

"shells"

Yes that is a pirate ship 

It was a peaceful afternoon at the beach, pirate ship an all! We headed back to our pub room for the last night in York. Next up, heading to Edinburgh in the am.