A day trip to YORK, ENGLAND: things to do, places to eat!

That’s smart planning! Two days were NOT enough

Good plan! Plus I feel like low-season York will be great, medieval streets probably look just as charming when it's a bit of a dark cold day, and less people to dodge!

I think it is the third best university behind Oxford and Cambridge. Is based around a lake and although it is getting a bit old it is very nice place to be. During Summer holidays it rents out rooms and is a though for a cheap place to stay. There are buses to the centre ever ten minutes.

Aw that’s so great to hear! .)

Glad you enjoyed it!! Thank you for watching .)

I am going there end of October also!
Enjoy

Except for Shambles 😂 coincidentally also my mental state after I tried to enjoy a walk through them on a sunny weekend.

Lincoln's Cathedral is definitely worth the visit.

Hi. I am thinking/planning a week of York that would also include a couple day trips out and about. Am I overthinking this? Thanks for your advice 😊

@@ingaborlowski1536 If you had a week at York but wanted to take the time to have trips out to other (local-ish) places on a couple of those days: (1). A trip to Whitby - with its magnificent cliff-top Abbey famous for the Synod of Whitby at which the method of calculating the date for Easter between the Roman & Celtic churches was resolved. And also the place where in Bram Stoker's novel, Count Dracula first came ashore in England after hitting the rocks in a storm, before Dracula continued his blood-sucking activities (he'd already "nibbled" the necks of the ship's crew). The town has many places linked to Dracula and has The Dracula Experience and other venues/shops related to him. And Goth Weekends where LOADS of harmless people wander the town in Victorian clothes (with some Vampire-like "people") and are very happy to be photographed.
Additionally Whitby is the place from which Captain James Cook RN started his navigational career before he started his mammoth exploratory sailing expeditions in which accurate charts were made (some of which were relied on well into the 20th century). Trips to New Zealand, Australia, South American Pacific coast and the Galapagos Islands, Hawaii and the Alaska coast were part of his journey. There is a replica of his ship "The Endeavour" berthed in the harbour. Also Whitby is the home of Whitby Jet which was popularised by Queen Victoria (look it up!). PLUS fish+chips.
You could go to Scarborough but if you go to just one of the coastal towns make it Whitby.
(2). You could go up Ryedale at the southern edge of the North York Moors for the day. If the weather is good, go for a hike. You could go to Pickering with its castle, to Kirkbymoorside ("Gateway to the NYMoors") or to Helmsley (lovely market square, good pubs and shops, Helmsley Castle and Duncombe Park to visit as well as the National Birds of Prey Centre nearby). If you went to Pickering, you could take the North York Moors Heritage Railway with stops at Lewisham, Goathland - whose rail station is seen in Harry Potter films - Grosmont and Whitby itself. Steam trains as well as some veteran diesel engines!
(3). You could go a little further inland from York instead of going North East, to go instead into the Yorkshire Dales with attractive Wharfedale places like Kettlewell (pubs again!) and Starbotton, or go to Haworth and the Rectory/Vicarage there: the home of the 3 VERY SIGNIFICANT sister-authors, the Brontë sisters. Major literary figures (Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights etc).
Wherever you go, there will be plenty to see and York would be a decent base. Enjoy your visit...

@@ingaborlowski1536 I thought I'd sent a reply to this yesterday but if seems to have disappeared. I may have pressed the wrong button, so here goes again (which probably means the original will now re-appear!)...
If you intended to visit York for a week but to have a couple or so days-out using York as your base then perhaps:
1. You really should visit Whitby. So many things to do at this seaside/harbour town. On the top of the cliffs on the southern-eastern side are St Mary's Church (still used) and the ruins of Whitby Abbey (overlooking the North Sea) and its museum. The Abbey was the place where missionaries and other experts from the Roman and Celtic churches gathered together in 664AD and where the momentous decison was made as to how the date of Easter should be calculated then and in the future (and it is still followed now). It was also when the nature of the tonsure (the shaving of the head by Monks etc) was agreed. The ruins are extensive, well worth the visit, and the museum has a lot of good exhibits.
The Abbey and the cliffs below it are also significant because, in his novel, Bram Stoker (who'd stayed at Whitby) had the ship carrying Count Dracula - the Demeter - come to grief on the rocks below the Abbey and just outside of Whitby Harbour. To be fair, Dracula had already "nibbled" the necks of the crew by then, so no-one had been left alive on the vessel, but the famous vampire was able to come ashore and begin his blood-sucking actvities as per the novel. There are several shops and other places where Dracula is "celebrated" in Whitby including the "Dracula Experience" on the other side of the river, at the Harbour-side. There are also a couple of weekends each year when you will see crowds of Goths (harmless people wearing Victorian Clothing, plus a few Vampires and their victims) wandering around Whitby. They are usually more than happy to pose for photographs.
Whitby is the place where Captain James Cook RN learned his navigational skills to become a Ship's Master before setting off on his voyages of discovery (amongst other places going to, and charting some of the coasts of New Zealand, Australia, some of the coast of South America, Tahiti and Hawaii (where he met his end). There is a replica of his first ship the "Endeavour" (which you can go on board) in the harbour and on the West Cliff side of town you can see the Whale-jaw Arch through which you can walk or take photos. (Whitby was an old whaling town).
Whitby has lots of pubs and is famous for its fish+chips and Whitby Scampi which is sold throughout the UK. It also has a steam railway - see below. (You could always go to Scarborough with its Castle, Peaseholme Park which you should look up, and its beach and amusements, but if you chose only one coastal town I'd go to Whitby).
2. You could go to the North Yorkshire Moors (NYM) and its various towns like Pickering (it has a castle and is quite pretty), Kirbymoorside and Helmsley (another pretty market town with a Castle with some walled gardens, and Duncombe Park - Stately Home in a large parkland setting and, only a few miles away, the magnificent 11th Century Rievaulx Abbey with its museum and cafe), or a few miles further inland to Thirsk where "James Herriot" of the famous veterinary surgeon stories ("All Creatures Great and Small" etc) and TV/films had his practice. There is a Herriot museum at the place where he and his colleagues worked and lived in Thirsk. Incidentally if you DID go to Pickering, you'd notice a railway station in the centre of the town. That allows you to get onto steam trains (or a veteran diesel engine) which run on the NYM Railway from Pickering to Whitby - stopping at Levisham, Goathland - whose station and bridge was used in the Harry Potter films - and Grosmont en route.
3. You could go further inland to the Yorkshire Dales (Ribblesdale, Dentdale, Malhamdale, Wharfedale, Swaledale and Wensleydale - where Wallace and Gromit's cheese comes from!) with their beautiful scenery and yet more castles and market towns to visit. Or you could visit Haworth with its Parsonage where Charlotte Bronte (who wrote Jane Eyre), Emily Bronte (who wrote Wuthering Heights) and Anne Bronte (who wrote the Tenant of Wildfell Hall) lived much of their lives. Have there ever been 3 sisters each writing an acknowledged literary masterpiece before? Haworth is near to Keighley and Bradford but it and the other Dales can be reached easily from York.
Well, that gives you 3 options to choose from. All reachable from York and worth a day out, with plenty of tea/coffee shops and pubs to refill your appetite on the way. It might be a good idea for you to look these places up on the "Inter-web" first to decide what most tickles your fancy. I hope, whatever you decide, that if you do come to the UK and York in particular, you will have a good time! I'm off now to put on the kettle - time for a pot of tea!

@@raymondporter2094 thank you so so much! Your suggestions are incredible - I was already planning on a couple of the things you listed and now you’ve just given me even more ideas to add on. Thank you so much, I look forward to my visit. I hope you enjoyed your cup of tea. 🙂

@@ingaborlowski1536 I was naughty. I had a couple of small cakes, too!

You’ll definitely have a lot less people to dodge in the city centre, travelling in winter! Hope you have a great time! .)

Happy to see I managed to publish this before your trip!!

Oooh I like the sound of that!!

@@KakibotThanks for taking us along on another Guidebook trip! York is in my top four favorite cities (Edinburgh, Inverness and Bath are others) to visit when in the UK (not counting Canterbury because it’s more like a second home to me). Always nice to stop at the House of Trembling Madness (if for no other reason than the name) for a pint and a bite to eat. I usually stay at St Mary’s Guest House because it’s a super easy walk from the train station and the Railway Museum!

Oh yay! That was a great start to the trip! .)

Thanks for the tip! .)

It really is! Thank you for watching .)

Avoid York during the horse racing and at weekends, it is not a friendly place at those times.

Do you understand that you and your daughter were also equally as responsible for the frustrating crush of tourists? I've never understood the attitude of tourists complaining about how busy touristy areas are as if their pleasure and comfort takes priority over everybody elses. The lack of self awareness is astonishing.It's
Try living in a place like York, until you do you've got no idea about the frustrations of over tourism.

@ oh yes. Poor planning on the time. I’ve heard nothing but raves of how wonderful it is.
That’s why I said it could have been. It was the height of the season. We understood that.

Bath/Bristol.

Train ride to Knaresborough and row on the river. Venice of the North!

Nearer to Liverpool is Chester which is a lovely place too. Smaller but historic buildings and river etc and easy to get to from Liverpool.

Yeaaaah the train pricing situation is not great ./ definitely feels like a luxury! But York is very much worth the day trip!

We’re here now and with my partner we got a two together rail pass (we live in London). Reduced the price by half so the rail pass made up for its cost with just one trip.

Have you ever been to the ‘third world’? What are you even on about?