A Wee Bit of Time in the British Isles: York, England -- July 21

National Railway Museum, York Castle Museum, York Castle/Clifford’s Tower, The Shambles, City Walls, York Minster

The York lions

S: I really wanted to go to York, so I found a book at the library and researched it and convinced everyone to go.

View of York from the old city walls

S: My favorite thing in York was Clifford’s tower, which was the big tower of a castle. A lot of people think it is called Clifford’s Tower because of someone who owned it but really it is called that because of someone who was executed there.

S: A tour guide at Clifford's tower made us knights. They were doing a program to promote old English sites.

A: Clifford’s Tower was a medieval tower used to protect the city. I liked the way it is small but could see all of York from it.

S: York Minster is the biggest gothic church north of the Alps. When you get inside the ceiling seems to tower above you.

S: The Shambles is a bunch of old, medieval streets. There are shops in the buildings now. It was fun to walk through them. We saw a guy on a unicycle juggling knives.

E: In York I liked the York Castle museum because it had a street that was like an old town with shops. There was a toy store, candy shop, school, jail, and apothecary. You could go into the shops. In the jail you could put people in prison, and I got locked up.

A: The flying Scotsman is a famous train that ran between London and Edinburgh, starting in 1862. We did not see it because it was being refurbished.

A: The railroad museum has the Japanese bullet train. It also has old royal trains. We saw Queen Victoria’s coach and King Edward VII's coach, and they were fancy.