Visiting the UK & France - April-May 2019

Breakfast in the York Pavilion Hotel, and then off to the city without the car.  It was much easier to hop on the bus out the front, and change onto the tourist hop-on-hop-off bus in the city.  Waiting for the Number 7 Bus...  On the Number 7 Bus.  Off the local bus at Clifford's Tower, and there is the tourist bus waiting for us over the road. In York, the streets are named 'Gates', the gates are named 'Bars', and apparently they call the bars 'Pubs'.  We saw alot of gates and alot of bars.  This is Dick Turpin's grave, the last in this old graveyard with the headstone still standing.  We dropped back here later in the day.  The last intact barbican in the UK.  Now a restaurant...  The barbican from the other side.  A Bar.  sorry, can't remember the name of this one. The river Ouse.  The other river in York is the Foss.  Both are really only used for leisure boating these days, and the Fos...

Another lovely breakfast at the Red Lion Inn in Milfield was followed by first re-visiting the Heritage site around the corner, which turned out to be the site of human occupation in the area since Paleolithic times, part of the Maelmin Heritage Trail .  Information around the site showed how the area had changed, and they had built a Dark Age house replica using the tools and techniques of the time. The weather today was milder, with some sun, and notably we got out of the car a few times without leaping immediately for coats.  No rain today, and temperatures around 10-12c. A little way along the road from there a squirrel ran across the road... This is another black spot moving in the dash cam image.  You can see it moving from left to right from around the 45 second point. Then we headed off seeking Hadrian's Wall.  Saw this interesting bridge. We planned to go to Steel Rigg (where they claim that the wall is just 3 minutes walk from the ...