The heatwave finally came to an end on our final day in York. It was offered much appreciated relief. We had afternoon tea scheduled in the mid-afternoon, so we broke our day. The morning included an open-top bus tour and a wander along the city's medieval wall; and the afternoon included a stroll through a surprisingly expansive park. We bought a ticket for one of the ubiquitous Hop On-Hop Off bus tours. Pretty much every major city has one of these. Heck, Inverness has one! The ticket is good for 24 hours, so you can actually use the bus as transport if you want. That had been our original intention, but we ended up just doing the hour-long tour and that was the end of it. But we enjoyed it. And I saw bits of York I had never seen before. And learned some interesting tidbits. The tour was broadcast in English, but if you had headphones you could select other languages. Like Kids English and Yorkshire. When the "bus" part of the day was o...
I am a bit sad to say good-bye to England and to know the core of my researching is nearly over. But being apart from Steve for so long and being incredibly anxious to get back to him means that happy definitely overshadows sad at this point.
ReplyDeleteAs for GTAing - yes, I think I am ready. Last semester was horrid and it took me some time to recover. I spent at least a week here actually dreading going back. But time to decompress and do the historian bit has helped me reacquire my enthusiasm.