York, England

York is an absolutely beautiful city.  Smaller than both Manchester and London, but had quite a bit to offer.  York is a unique city that has a lot of history behind it starting way back with the Romans invading the area.  During my time in York, I explored the city with a girl I met on the bus named Stella. Stella is a exchange student from China studying a Masters in Business Administration at MMU.  We first had a walk around the city walls.  The original area of the city was enclosed in by wall and they have left them up and you can walk around and see them.  Where you walk is elevated and they look like the outer walls of a castle where it goes up and down so people could see out or intruders in the olden days.  We also had a look around the National Railway Museum, York Art Gallery, and the Yorkshire Museum.  The National Railway Museum was very interesting and did a lot of explaining about their railway system and how it got started.  It also had some of the original Royal Trains inside which were like houses on wheels and very luxurious for the time.  The York Art Gallery was very neat because they had a display on how Hats can influence social status and occupation in early centuries of European culture, which being a fashion major, that was of much interest to me.  I posted a few pictures of some of the hats I really liked.  We also enjoyed looking around their city centre with many nice local shops and we had an authentic England lunch of Fish and Chips from a local York family restaurant.  

Love from England,  allie