Boredom v's Budget: Week 3

Week 3 of the school holidays was our mid-week trip to York. We went to York last year for the first time, mainly for the railway museum as B is still nuts about trains. It's only 2 1/2 hours away on the train for us, and because there was lots more we didn't do there last year, we decided to go back again.

This time, we also had a couple of friends for both me and B, which just takes the pressure of me a bit to be the only entertainment!

Highlights of our week in pictures:

On the open-top bus. "It's quite windy up here"

At the Railway Museum
"That's the train in one of my story books!"
The fastest steam train in the world... probably.

Where does that go, then?

Watch out! The Highwayman's about!

You betcha.
At York's Chocolate Story

"Eat Chocolate Live Longer?"  I hope so...

Yes that IS the sun shining! With B in his wellies, typical.

At Clifford's Tower

 Money spent: Quite a bit. But we were on holiday so I was expecting it, and with 2 other mummies there, splitting taxi fares and food etc made it a bit cheaper.


Energy used: York is small enough to walk most places, so lots of energy used up but not so that they were too exhausted. All in bed and asleep within 10 minutes each night so all that fresh air obviously did the trick.


Highlight of the week: lots to choose from, but probably the fact that the weather finally took a turn for the better and meant we could just wander about the pretty streets without worrying about getting soaked.


Tip Tip: Always include a snack-stop (for both mummies and kiddies) to refill the energy tanks. Betty's afternoon tea was delish (and a cheeky wee glass of pink fizz for this particular mummy helped to wash it down nicely)!

Mummies agreed a return mummy-only trip to sample the York nightlife was definitely a plan for the future.