Coventry - York - Scotch Corner
We left the Midlands passing the once mighty Sherwood Forest, home of the legendary Robin Hood and head north to York, England's most complete medieval city. York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire. We stood in front of the great structure of York Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe then walked through a maze of quaint streets, including the narrow Shambles, which is an old street in York, with overhanging timber-framed buildings, some dating back as far as the fourteenth century. We also visited the Jorvik Viking Museum where thirty years ago archaeologists revealed the houses, workshops and backyards of the Viking-Age city of Jorvik, as it stood 1,000 years ago along with over 40,000 artefacts! The Centre was built on this very site where the excavations had taken place, creating a groundbreaking visitor experience that changed the face of museums and have recreated a Viking city as authentically as possible from the layout of the houses, the working craftsmen, the language of the gossiping neighbours, to the smells of cooking and the cesspit. We also visited Saint Margaret Clitherows' Shrine, she had a rather gruesome martyrdom in 1586 for being a Catholic in a newly Protestant England

Stopped for the night near Richmond gateway to the Yorkshire Dales made famous by James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small at the Great North Road Hotel.