North Yorkshire (photos!)

[Forostar]

Hi,

I am planning a short vacation in April (with wife and 2 year old kid), of about 6 days.
We'll stay in two places: Pickering and York.

I wonder if any of you has specific memories of the North Yorkshire area.
We're surely planning to see the North York Moors, the medieval street(s?), city wall, gates, towers and cathedral in York and the castles in both towns.

Maybe we would like to do this war museum as well: Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum, or visit Scarborough Castle.

Probably we can't even do all these things, so you might wonder why I made this topic but I am still curious if you have any feedback, whatever story, experience, tip or memory you have.

Do you guys have any Maiden related info about this area?

 

[national acrobat]

Re: North Yorkshire

It's been quite a while since I was in last in York, but I remember that the Jorvik Viking centre was good fun, and it's the sort of thing H might enjoy. It also has the National Railway Museum if you're interested in that sort of thing; I seem to remember that was good too. The railway station there is a fantastic building in itself. York's a very enjoyable place to spend time just walking around the city and the walls.

When you're in the Moors you won't be far from Whitby, which is supposed to be where you can find the best fish and chips in England (i.e. the world).

Enjoy your trip!

 

[Forostar]

Re: North Yorkshire

What a coincidence, Marta just showed me a wiki page about Whitby, and the ancient abbey looks very interesting.

I'll eat the chips and let H and her eat the fish.

And that railway museum/station sound very nice as well (H likes trains too).

Thanks mate! Cheers.

 

[Albie]

Re: North Yorkshire

I've only ever been to York (a day trip around 15 years ago) and that's is it. I have spent a fair amount of time in West/South Yorkshire but not North. I wish I could help but I'm not that familiar with the area.

As NA said, they do pride themselves on the Fish and Chips up north, so enjoy that.

 

[Forostar]

Re: North Yorkshire

Hehe, funny to know that. Cheers.

 

[Forostar]

So, this was a very nice holiday. To my surprise most tourists were English (or British) and hardly no other foreigners. The landscape was beautiful, and the ruines out there we thought as stunning. The fish and chips were great. So was the hospitality.

Some photos:

Rievaulx Abbey. An impressive thing I read on wiki:

It also had a prototype blast furnace at Laskill, producing cast iron as efficiently as a modern blast furnace; according to Gerry McDonnell (archeometallurgist of the University of Bradford), the closure of Rievaulx delayed the Industrial Revolution for two and a half centuries.  

Helmsley Castle.

By streamtrain to Whitby.

Whitby Abbey, inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

View from the summit of Pickering Castle.

Adrian checking some info on a room we entered in Pickering Castle.

One of many objects in the world's biggest railway museum (in York). This huge train was made in England in the 1930s and served in China, and was later captured by Japan and used in WWII. Engines were bigger in China than in the UK because they needed to carry more freight.

 

[Night Prowler]

Great photos It's nice to see that in Facebook era people still take photos of objects (rather than people). Can I ask what was the weather like?

 

[Forostar]

Very good. Sunny as well. The wind was a bit fresh though, but for this kind of year we felt lucky to have such weather, in this part of the world.

 

[Taker]

Wow, Forostar. You named your boy Adrian... .

 

[Forostar]

Indeed! But to be honest, we named him after my father (whose first full name is Adrianus, just like his father and my own, so this fellow is the fourth in a row). In reality Adrian is the "calling name" (an abbreviation of the full name), as we say here. My "calling name" is Aad. Also, Adrian is a regular name in Poland (and I imagine more countries; it's Adriaan in Holland), where my wife comes from.

But the coincidence is a cool one of course. I'll sure explain it when he understands.

 

[Albie]

So, this was a very nice holiday. To my surprise most people were English (or British) and hardly no other foreigners. The landscape was beautiful, and the ruines out there we thought as stunning. The fish and chips were great. So was the hospitality.

In truth, although we do travel abroad a lot (and acquire for ourselves a nasty reputation at times ), there is so much to see in our own country that we holiday at home a lot. Good to see you enjoyed Yorkshire hospitality.