Bonnie Scotland …

by Living Our Best Lives

Kilometres Walked : Wednesday – 5.1, Thursday – 8.6, Friday – 8.1, Saturday – 3.5, Sunday – 6.5. (Not our usual km’s😳)

Sunday 23rd July, 2023.

After a lovely two nights at Filey, we packed the car and headed to York on the way to dropping the keys back to Toni. York is a beautiful historical walled town in North Yorkshire famous for its Cathedral-York Minister and the shambles, a historic street with preserved medieval buildings, some dating back as far as the 14th century. With timber buildings overhanging the narrow cobblestone alleys it is definitely something worth seeing.

One of the old entrances into York.
York Minister.
And again.
Lovely old buildings.
So cute.
But very busy😳
A little history.
So quirky.
Some lovely old pubs.
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A little quieter at this end.
Pots of colour everywhere.
A section of the old wall.

York was a beautiful old medieval town with once again pots of colour at every turn. It’s definitely one of my favourite things about England 🪻🌹🌺🌸 . Whilst having a bite to eat in the middle of the Shambles market, another couple joined us at the table. After chatting for a while we discovered that they have been travelling for ten years. Yes you read that correctly. They sold everything back in Seattle ten years ago and have been travelling ever since. How amazing and exciting and they haven’t killed each other 😆.

The next few days were just relaxing, hanging out with the family back in Newcastle and trying to reorganise our belongings. They do seem to have somehow expanded 😳. We might have to stay out of the op shops.

Today we set off on the last big leg of our adventures. We jumped on the train and headed off to Bonnie Scotland. After a very entertaining train ride sitting across from a couple of Sunderland lads ( and a whole train full of people heading to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers in Glasgow ) we arrived at our first stop. Yep you guessed it, Glasgow. And no we didn’t decide to go to the concert, the prices were a little scary with our exchange rate.

We packed a little lighter this time.
The Clyde River.
We spotted two seals lolling about.
And it isn’t raining 👏
Beautiful old buildings.
Not to busy either.

With blue sky peeking through the clouds, we had a little stroll to the river Clyde. Spotting something rolling around in the water we first thought it was an otter ( a really big one ) but realised it was a seal. Then there was another one. That definitely wasn’t something we expected to see in the middle of the city. Jason thought Loch Ness had decided to visit Glasgow. 🦦🦭