{"id":1832,"date":"2015-09-20T06:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2015-10-26T06:56:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T19:56:51","slug":"to-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"To York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until I\u2019d started this trip I\u2019d forgotten the great distances to be walked in airports and some train stations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 London\u2019s Kings Cross Station seemed to go on forever especially when transferring from another line. After obtaining my ticket to York I decided to go to the toilet.\u00a0 I would not like to have had a significant disability affecting walking or else it would have been impossible due to distance.\u00a0 I then discovered that to \u201cspend a penny\u201d now costs 30p, about 60 cents. Think I was in primary school when I last had to pay for the privilege apart from a couple of places in Vietnam.\u00a0\u00a0 I had booked a seat on a quiet carriage and despite heading to the platform as soon as the platform number was displayed was only just settled when the train departed as my carriage was the end of a very long line.\u00a0 The previous night I\u2019d watched a program on one of the cheap shop entrepreneurs, his foray into new markets and his fastidious attention to presentation and shop cleanliness.\u00a0 While the train was just grubby and showing signs of wear, had it been one of his shops, he would not have been happy.\u00a0 On a positive side there were very few passengers and the trip was smooth, uneventful and over in almost 2 and a half hours.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/a>

One of a number of wind farms in the train corridor<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Solar<\/a>

Solar Farm<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hay<\/a>

Hay stacked in field, also found as large round bales<\/p><\/div>\n

The hostel is well located in the middle of the walled city of York surrounded by numerous very old and picturesque buildings.\u00a0 The lift doesn\u2019t work so its shanks pony up 2 flights of stairs to another cubby house bunk, albeit a slightly more accessible one than that in Copenhagen. I had requested a lower bunk and staff was organized enough to select and place an A4 notice of reservation on it.\u00a0 I\u2019d got my reserved lower bunk in Copenhagen too but another old duck who had done the same and had even received confirmation missed out.\u00a0 This hostel is very well presented and maintained and has won awards.\u00a0 However, it is sandwiched between 2 bars and the nightlife goes on for hours.\u00a0 Given it is the start of the weekend the head banging music will continue till about 2am.<\/p>\n

\"Hostel<\/a>

Hostel kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Stonegate<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Used<\/a>

Used to train minor clergy hundreds of years ago<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"York<\/a>

York Minster There had been a uni graduation and many young people and families were wandering the streets and having photos taken<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A very expensive face lift for York Minster courtesy of he Lotteries Fund<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until I\u2019d started this trip I\u2019d forgotten the great distances to be walked in airports and some train stations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 London\u2019s Kings Cross Station seemed to go on forever especially when transferring from another line. After obtaining my ticket to York I decided to go to the toilet.\u00a0 I would not like to have had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}