I thought I'd break up the huge clumps of text with some videos. None of them are mine, just ones I found randomly on the Internet. Hooray for youtube! (Note: I found the short and sweet ones for you, as I hate sitting through a five-minute video as much as the next person.)
This first one is a cute introduction. Why did the Romans call gates bars and streets gates? Crazies! (Also, the Theater Royal you see here is the one where I saw the pantomime of "Cinderella.")
This is a 26-second clip of the York Minster bells chiming. When I was first investigating York and walking around the city walls, I heard them go off and it was magical.
This video you don't have to watch all the way through—it's of The Shambles, the narrowest street in York. You can actually shake hands with a person in the house opposite yours on the second floor. It looks soooo different in this clip, because obviously it was taken in the summer and I've only seen it in the dead of winter. No pretty greenery right now! (Note: it starts out with crazy tourist people but goes into the street pretty quickly).
Last but not least... the place where my bus stops! The tower on the hill is Clifford's Tower and the huge purple thing on the road is the bus I take most days. At the very end, you can see one of the many Pizza Huts in the city with a white strip across it. (They are in love with Subway and Pizza Hut here... don't ask me why.) The Pizza Huts are actually pretty snazzy, though—weird!
Hope you enjoyed it! This week has been pretty dead so far, but Francie and I are going to Liverpool this weekend to do Beatles tourist-y things, so that should provide some good reading.
Last but not least: You should all run, not walk, to buy yourself a copy of "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt. I thought it would be this long, drawn-out, depressing book that would take forever to get through, but it's incredibley addicting and I have to force myself to stop reading it at night. I just can't put it down! So obviously, I highly recommend it.
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I found Angela's Ashes totally addictive when I read it, too! It's depressing and frustrating to read but at the same time it's so engrossing. I was actually looking for my copy the other day so I could reread part of it, but I can't recall where I put it. Living away from home just means one more place a book can be hiding!
Well written article.
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