Day trip to York on Saturday...

[Sysman]

Depends what you are into, but:

• Cliffords Tower - see it before they surround it with a shopping centre
• York Castle Museum
• York Minster
• York City Walls - open until 9pm at this time of year
• Top Tourist Attractions In York
• York Art Gallery - never been myself, but there's a Chinese exhibition there at the moment

[Ken Dodd]

York

My vote would be:

• Railway museum
  a walk around the city walls and
  a walk along the river
  a river cruise
  The Minster. This is an impressive site even from the outside. It used to be free (it is a church after all) but unfortunately, there is now an entry charge which is quite steep
  A general mooch around the Shambles and surrounding streets

[threaded]

Any ideas what to do?

MTB all the bits of wall you can find.

Girly really liked a deli called "The Hairy Fig". Dunno if they're still there as their website now appears to sell viagra.

[threaded]

MTB all the bits of wall you can find.

Girly really liked a deli called "The Hairy Fig". Dunno if they're still there as their website now appears to sell viagra.

Oops my bad, here it is.

[TheFaQQer]

Is LNER Class A3 No. 4472 (the most famous loco in the world) still there?

Yes.

I seem to remember a Viking Centre? Was good when I was 10.

It's changed somewhat over the past 20 years I found when I was last there. Lots of newer technology like moving talking blinking puppets, but no more hologram of the Coppergate helmet at the end. But has some interesting people to chat to at the end. There is a separate place where you can also do an artificial dig too.

FAQ

Hello Where have you been?

You didn't create Gimpy just for this comeback did you??

Gimpy is nothing to do with me.

[Scrag Meister]

I was there a couple of weeks back on the motorbike.

Do not go to the Judges Cellar bar I think it was called, rip off...

£3.90 for a hot chocolate!!

[Sysman]

I seem to remember a Viking Centre? Was good when I was 10.

Young whippersnapper!

I remember an archaeology type from my college days doing the dig that was the basis of the Viking Centre.

From their web site:

Everything in JORVIK Viking Centre is based on archaeological evidence unearthed during the Coppergate excavations undertaken between 1979–81 by York Archaeological Trust.

Ooer, must have been a different dig, as archaeological girlie was doing a dig in 1976. Hmm, methinks I sense some turf wars behind the above quote