hobbs overseas adventure: Sunday 25 March

Well today began in true English fashion, a full English Breakfast, even though we were still full from last night... It had to be done and it was awesome food once again.. mmmmm.....

From Breakfast, as we do in every new down we visit we jump on the Red Open top Bus and go exploring the city and it's sights.

Like every where in the UK there is so much history, and no more than York, we just knew that today would be very memorable. The town is partly surrounded by an old defensive wall.. SO much history... As the tour came to an end we we headed right past York Minster again.

From here we headed to the Viking museum and learnt about the early settlers in York or Jorvik as it was called by Vikings. We got to see archaelogical digs and even some skeltons of some ancient warriors.. with a sexy warrior in red..

Plus we got to dress up... If you haven't been then you must go.. great place for kids and big kids...

Today also marked the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK. So there were lots of celebrations going on around the country, and also a lot of protests seeing there is still a lot of child and sex trafficking going on still. Also more than 100 volunteers, including us, created a 150ft outline of a slave ship on the Eye of York in front of Clifford's Tower. We laid down to remember the suffering of the people who were taken from Africa on horrific journeys to the British colonies.

The symbolic event was filmed and photographed from the top of the museum with the aim of incorporating the images into its new exhibition Unfair Trade, which we were able to get into for free because of our participation.
Check out the local media story on the event. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/search/display.var.1285146.0.marking_a_milestone.php

Here's Di an Uncle Paul having a fun game of Naughts and Crosses in the rec area of the museum.. It was well worth seeing, a lot more history about historic York...

Then finally we made our way to the top of Cliffords Tower, Yorks Castle, where we got a great view of the city.

Then, after a great weekend of fun and excitement, we headed back into town to get a coffee from Starbucks, then got in the car and headed back to Middlewich.