We are getting really good at packing up and clearing our room. Today we were sorted in less than 10 minutes! We drove into York and wandered through the Shambles. This is an ancient street that was talked about in the Doomsday book around the time of William the Conqueror in 1066. Around the 14th century it was rebuilt and became a street of butchers who would wash their offal down the street... oh just lovely! This is the reason that the street actually has gutters. Because it is medieval, the streets are really narrow and the buildings are leaning out over the street. They look precarious but I'm guessing they are regularly checked by engineers. I hope so anyway. We wandered down a couple of streets and found the wall that circles the city. Graeme managed the stairs and we wandered along the wall for a few hundred metres. We went back to the car which we had parked in a city car park as York is hopeless for street parking. We actually remembered where the car park was!

Setting our GPS for Nottingham we drove on the A roads south toward Robin Hood territory . It was about 100 klms from York and they have these annoying average speed cameras for klms at a time. Talk about frustrated. Anyway, we arrived at Sherwood Forest which is a family place and all free. I organised Graeme a wheel chair and we wandered the klm or so to the Major Oak that is well over 1100 years old. The poor old tree looks worse for wear with props holding up the branches and ropes running across the tree to hold the branches together. There were lots of families with their dogs walking along the tracks. Interesting that people visit this place in their thousands each year and there is actually no proof that Robin Hood even existed. In Edwinstowe; a little village about a klm from the visitor's centre which has a sign proclaiming itself as the place where Robin Hood and Maid Marion were married... probably another furphy :)

We reset the GPS for Milton Keynes and headed down the A46 and the M1 to arrive at the Holiday Inn where we are now ensconced and I'm watching The Big Bang Theory lol... We are off to Bletchley Park in the morning. I'm looking forward to this place; it was where the Enigma code was broken.