Guiness and Vikings

So ive decided to update a bit more regularily so I dont have to write as much.

On Monday, while still in ireland I took the car for a last drive to check out Woodstock Gardens; a ruined manor with extensive gardens attached. The drive was really nice, drving through some really cool lanes. I got lost a couple of times on the way (mainly on purpose), just taking random roads that looked kinda cool to drive down before actually going in search of the place itself. The gardens where really peacefull with some traditional style flower gardens mixed with lawns and a lot of wooded area. I did a bit of bushbashing just for some fun and ran into a couple of squirrels etc.

The next day I left Sarah and co for the last time :( and took a bus to Dublin where I spent the day almost exclusivley in the Guiness Storeroom where I met a Canadian girl who was also travelling alone. So we spent the rest of the afternoon looking around the Guiness museaum thingo, drinking beer in the Skybar; (a circular room with glass walls, situated on the 10th storey or so looking over the city with a bar in the middle) and walking around Dublin. Anyways it turns out she lives about 4 hours drive away from Kicking Horse where Ill be working in Canada so that was pretty cool.
Yesterday I left Dublin and flew to Leeds where I then got a bus to York where I was picked up by one of my mums cousins; Richard. He took me to his mums place where we are spending the next couple of nights before going to Hull where he actually lives. His mum, Nora is in her 80s and is a lovely lady, very grandma like but her memories going a little so Im getting used to answering questions she's already asked me. Anyways, Ive spent today looking round York which is a great in that its really retained its old Norman/medievil style. For example the vast majority of the Norman wall remains and is in good repair. You pretty much walk around the entire inner city on the wall battlements. The city gates also still stand and roads run underneath the gates beneath portcullises, one of which is still (theoretically) in working condition. Ive walked down one of the famouse lanes called the Shambles which has very old wooden framed building which lean in over the lane.
Theres also a Viking museam which has been built under the ground exactly where archiological digs have been conducted. Its a highly advanced museaum with LCD presentation inside a rocking 'time machine', a 15min ride through the Viking city of Jorvik (pronuounced Yor-vik) set around 900AD and lots of interactive displays etc.
Really cool museum.

Anyway Im spending tomorrow in York as well before I go to Hull with Richard. Ill be spending the weekend there and then in the middle of next week they've invited me to come to the Yorkshire Moors with them on their holiday which Im really looking forward to.

Until next time, have fun!