I never did get to show you photos of my trip to York last week, what with the missing camera and all the hullaballoo in between.

Anyway, now I can.

I love York – it’s a fabulous town to have a good mooch around, fantastically historic and full of interesting places to visit and things to see. The Minster is famous, but I didn’t make it there this time, it being more of a girly day and all.

It turned out that the Saturday we went to York was the busiest shopping day of the year. We spent a lot of time looking round the old shopping area known as the Shambles – as you can see it’s delightful, but wall to wall bodies! It was also a typically northern English very grey day!

However I did make it to the lovely yarn shop – Ramshambles – which was packed. Not as relaxing to look around as I would have liked, but on the other hand it’s really nice to see a wool shop full of people! Sorry, the photo is slightly out of focus – poor Lindsay was having a hard time using my camera!

The Shambles is full of higgledy piggeldy buildings dating back hundreds of years.

There has also been some wonderful restoration work done – on the Barley Hall, for example!

After many years of wanting to go there I also finally made it to the headquarters of the Quilter’s Guild – a gorgeous old building in a fairly quiet part of town. We had to laugh – we probably picked the quietest place to be in York on a Saturday afternoon!

But just look at what gorgeous things we found inside…and what a fantastic building!

So if you’re ever nearby…you know where to go!

Helen

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