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 This is the view out the window of our room in the B&B we stayed at in York. Didn't get a picture of the front. I know y'all are so disappointed. |
 This is a street in the center of York looking rather Dickensian. Despite the shop sign to the right saying "EDINBURGH," it *is* York - the sign belongs to a branch of the Edinburgh Woolen Mill chain. Someone asked me if the UK really was as depopulated as it seems from my pictures, and the answer is no - the lack of people in my photos is partly due to the season (late December) and partly due to me not liking to have random strangers in my photos, so I take care to compose the pcitures so as to get as few people as possible in them. |
 This is Clifford's Tower, an old keep on a tump next to the York Castle Museum. This area was the site of a massacre of Jews in, er, well, sometime during the medieval era. A quick Google on "Clifford's Tower" will probably get you info on it if you're interested. |
 A random flock of geese munching away on the lawn of the York Castle Museum. |
 The York Castle Museum. Doesn't look much like you'd expect a castle to look, but it's been rebuilt over the years and had a number of different functions, including a prison. |
 York Minster is built on the old site of a Roman basilica. This is a pillar from the basilica, re-erected near the Minster. You can also see one of the ubiquitous security cameras that many cities in the UK have placed all over. |
 Another Dickensian street, this one with the Christmas decorations all lit up. |
 A view of a Georgian crescent of houses through the windows of a tour bus, and a picture of my mother's left ear. |
 No, this isn't a portrait of my mother. If you look to the wall behind her, you'll see a bricked-up window. In many areas of the UK (and of the rest of Europe, for all I know), taxes on houses were assessed according to how many windows you had. Some people bricked up windows rather than pay the taxes on them. |
 A small sign on a building next to the railroad station I found amusing. It says "GENTLEMEN'S HAIRDRESSING ROOM." |
 Snow! It started snowing in York the day we left for London. This was the only snow we saw on our journey, except for a few flakes outside the train window on the way to Bath, although good portions of the UK were suffering blizzards or were covered in snowdrifts during the time we were there. Doesn't look much like it, but the vague out-of-focus blobs are snowflakes, and all the surfaces of the houses and cars are covered with a very light dusting. |
 Again, the snow. |
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