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I'm going to be really honest. I didn't plan to join this trip. I joined it because it was the first trip organised. It feels boring as a city itself, yet their own citizens are really proud of York city, and I know why after I went there. I've been to a few cities in the UK now (Ok, just three - Manchester, Sheffield and York), and York is like 3 times more beautiful than Manchester & Sheffield.

Its a historical city by itself, quite interesting that it is once ruled by the vikings, and was their capital city named Jorvik (pronounced "Yorvik"), don't ask me why. It is quite crowded at the assembly point, before 8am the Hubs were packed with students, there were 9 coaches, each filling about 45 of us, do the math. Feels like York will be flooded with Msians.


At arrival after 1 hour+, we were greeted by the Clifford's Tower. Nothing much, basically a tower approximately 3 storey tall, and its really really small, its a shame that they charge entrance fee to enter the really small space and to climb up the tower, and we as poor Malaysians that are very very good in maths, especially money did not pay any shit. Some of them climbed all the way up from the cliff bank so that they can take picture up high without paying.


Then we entered the shopping streets, the shops are nothing too special, road are very pack during the weekends, luckily no vehicles are allowed to enter the inner city during morning and noon, making York a perfect tourist spot. One thing that bothered me is my temptation for coffee. Everytime I pass by Costa and Starbucks my hands feel like grabbing my wallet out and get a coffee. Self-Control won though!


Something that is worth paying attention in York is the York Minster. It is a really really old and beautiful church (and also one of the largest in Europe), or more like a cathedral, beautifully constructed with awesome architecture, however they too, charge a fee of £8 to enter the inner part, but nevermind, the exterior itself is so beautiful that we don't actually need to go in. Let the picture do the talking:


Dean Park, located right next to the York Minster, nothing special itself, however, it is really special on that really special day. There's a couple getting married! They are Chinese couple from HK/China, beautifully dressed.


Before we left York, we went for a 3.5miles walk on the city wall, basically its a mini version of the great wall of China, dubbed the not-so-great wall of York.