Our train for Edinburgh didn't leave until around 7 pm, so we pretty much had the whole day to explore York more. After looking through some more shops, we stopped by the York Art Gallery which was tiny in comparison to the ones we saw in London. We ate a quick lunch in the square outside and then headed to the train station to pick up our tickets. Inside they had a little restaurant selling Cornish pasties which we had to try. They're a flaky pastry filled with ...

We started today by eating breakfast at our hostel before heading out into town. We stumbled upon a shopping area so we looked around in some of the stores, trying to keep out of the rain. The York Castle Museum was recommended in our guide books, so that was our next stop. It turned out to be a major disappointment. It showed recreated rooms and streets of York hundreds of years ago and the York Castle Prison which you could walk through, but it was nothing comp...

Today we set off early from Bath, taking a bus back to London's Victoria Station. We had three hours to kill before we had to catch our next bus to York so we walked around in the area outside Victoria Station and grabbed some lunch before riding the underground to King's Cross Station and getting on our bus at St Pancras Station next door. The drive took around 5 hours and we got to see some more of the English countryside and got the closest I've been to a nucl...