Day Four  Tuesday June 2

Every morning there's a slip of paper on our table telling us the weather for the day - windy, scattered showers and 17 deg C - and a nugget of information like " Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, except for the windmills in Ireland." 

SNICKELWAY DAY! 

Today we took a 2 mile scavenger hunt through York's  snickets and ginnels using  Mark Jones' book "A Walk Around the Snickleways of York." There are 48 snickleways, most of them follow ancient roads (pre-Roman)  and footpaths . They weren't intended to be historic, they were simply the way people got from one place to another. 
Remember, SNICKET: a passageway between walls or fences GINNEL: a narrow passageway between buildings ALLEYWAY:A narrow passage. All of them together make a SNICKELWAY.

 We tried to combine the Cat Walk but that really deserves a focus of its own.

 Finding the entrances and following the map was like playing a game. There are many surprizes along the way...... historical, fanciful.......

A Window Owl

I Know I Always Wanted to Do This

We found a re-creation of a medieval monks' herb garden. This is a willow bower that would have beans or vines growing on it

We Are Here

Our last York dinner at the pub, fish and chips sans chips and PEAS! The first green food I've seen in days.
This poor table went empty, no one wanted to sit at it. 




Tomorrow we leave for the Peak District. I'll be sorry to leave York. It's a welcoming and humanly scaled small city full of history, culture and adventure, there is so much to do. I'd definitely return.