John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Monday 23 September 2019
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[2019] [Sunday 22 September 2019] York: River trip, Clifford’s Tower and Castle Museum As usual, there were a few awakenings in the night…. During one, a tremulous whistling or hooting started and persisted for quite some time, that I took to be of an owl. Janet vacated the bathroom at 8.05am, so I got up, shaved and showered.… After going down for breakfast and back up to the room to get our stuff, we went out, heading for the River Ouse for a cruise. Janet noted: “It had rained most of the night, had stopped, and was drying up nicely.” Just before Lendal Bridge, signs “City Cruises York, river trips” and “City Cruises York, Lendal Bridge Landing” pointed us down a flight of steps to the riverside; and we skirted around Lendal Tower and walked along “Dame Judi Dench Walk” by the river to the landing. There, a further sign had “next sailing at” times written on it; the next one would be at 10.40am. We went back up the steps and crossed the bridge. …We sat on a bench just where the city wall starts. Janet suggested that we go for a drink, and in the riverside tower just there — the one opposite Lendal Tower — we saw that there was a café, “The Perky Peacock”. So we went in. Janet didn’t see anything to drink in the refrigerator that she wanted, but I had an americano coffee. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:32:44 (detail) The Perky Peacock café in Barker Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:20:24 The Perky Peacock café in Barker Tower At 10.30am we headed back the way we’d come, and joined the queue for the river cruise (£8.50 each). 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:32:44 Barker Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:34:06 Lendal Tower at the far end of Lendal Bridge, opposite Barker Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:34:06 (detail) People waiting at Lendal Bridge Landing for the City Cruises York boat 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:36:42 Boarding the City Cruises York vessel River Prince 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:39:28 Aboard the City Cruises York vessel River Prince Janet sat in the saloon below, but I sat on the upper deck at the front, standing up from time to time to take photos. We went first in a westward direction, and the guy who was “driving” gave a commentary on things we were passing. He spoke about the Scarborough railway bridge as we passed under it, saying that only the stone piers of the original 1845 bridge now exist, the main decks being replaced in 2015, and a pedestrian and cycle way being added in 2019. To the right, he pointed out the tower of St. Peter’s School, and told us that one of its more notable or notorious alumni was Guy Fawkes. I failed to photograph both of these features on the outward journey, but captured them on the way back. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:48:18 River Ouse 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:48:38 River Ouse 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:53:58 About to turn back just before Clifton Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:58:42 (Looking to port:) St. Peter’s School and Clifton Methodist Church 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 10:58:42 (detail) (Looking to port:) St. Peter’s School and Clifton Methodist Church 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:01:00 Scarborough Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:01:32 New foot- and cycle-way of Scarborough Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:01:58 (Ahead, east:) Lendal Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:02:28 (Looking to port:) Water Tower, at the end of the extension of the city walls around St. Mary’s Abbey As we passed the Museum Gardens, York Minster came into view in a gap in the trees. He said something about the word “minster”, that its usage and application had become uncertain over the years, but that they were places that “ministered” to people. I felt almost certain, though, that “minster” originally meant a church attached to a “monastery”. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:02:58 Approaching Lendal Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:04:28 Passing under Lendal Bridge; (looking to starboard:) Barker Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:04:50 (Looking back:) detail of Lendal Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:04:58 (Looking back:) Lendal Bridge, Lendal Tower, East Lodge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:06:40 Approaching Ouse Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:07:26 Patterns of reflected sunlight under Ouse Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:07:32 Patterns of reflected sunlight under Ouse Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:08:02 (Looking to port:) The King’s Arms 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:08:34 (Looking back, to starboard:) Woodsmill Quay, former warehouses 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:10:02 (Looking ahead, to starboard:) the former Bonding Warehouse 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:10:18 (Ahead:) Skeldergate Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:10:42 (Looking to port:) openable east arch of Skeldergate Bridge with its motor house/toll house 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:14:02 (View to port:) River Foss The boat turned around again just after it passed the mouth of the River Foss. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:15:00 (View to starboard, after the boat turned around:) River Foss 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:17:16 (Ahead:) Skeldergate Bridge 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:17:36 (Looking to port:) apartments on the west bank of the River Ouse 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:19:24 (Looking to starboard:) openable east arch of Skeldergate Bridge The boat was being moored at King’s Staith, when I went down and suggested to Janet that we disembark there, rather than go all the way to our starting point, because it was close to Clifford’s Tower which we intended to visit. So that’s what we did. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:25:40 The River Prince departing from King’s Staith We went to the nearby King’s Arms, the pub that’s frequently in the news for being flooded; but the Diet Pepsi dispenser wasn’t working, and they didn’t have any bottled diet drinks, so we left there and went to the Lowther, on the corner of the next-but-one block. The exterior appearance of the Victorian building left us unprepared for the über-modern interior design. I had a pint of Foster’s lager and Janet a diet cola. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:25:52 The King’s Arms, 3 King’s Staith, York 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 11:34:40 The Lowther on the corner of King’s Staith and Cumberland Street From there we went to Clifford’s Tower. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:13:56 View east from the corner of Clifford Street and Peckitt Street of Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:17:30 About to climb the motte to enter Clifford’s Tower We paid £15.40; that included two admissions and a guidebook. 
“Clifford’s Tower” 
“Clifford’s Tower”, plans, etc. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:29:18 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:29:30 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:29:52 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:30:06 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:30:34 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:30:42 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:30:50 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:30:56 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:31:06 Panorama of views within Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:32:06 Clifford’s Tower: fireplace in the west lobe 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:36:14 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:37:40 Clifford’s Tower: chimney of the fireplace in the west lobe 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:38:14 Clifford’s Tower: about to ascend by the spiral stairwell in the south lobe 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:38:30 Clifford’s Tower: spiral stairwell in the south lobe 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:39:04 Clifford’s Tower: first-floor chapel, seen from the stairwell 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:39:26 Clifford’s Tower: view from the first floor 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:39:44 Clifford’s Tower: continuation of the spiral stairwell in the south lobe 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:40:58 Clifford’s Tower: final steps to the wall-walk 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:41:42 View south-east from Clifford’s Tower: (left:) Female Prison and (centre:) Debtors’ Prison (now the Castle Museum); (right:) Assize Courts (now York Crown Court); (green:) the Eye of York 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:41:50 View south-west from Clifford’s Tower: (left:) Yorkshire Regiment Boer War Memorial; (centre:) Tower Gardens bordering the River Ouse 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:41:50 Ringed portions show: ○ Part of the city wall; ○ Davy Tower. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:42:06 Clifford’s Tower, viewed from the wall-walk, with the spire of St. Mary’s Church, Castlegate, and York Minster visible above to the north 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:42:16 Clifford’s Tower, viewed from the wall-walk 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:43:06 View east-southeast from Clifford’s Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:43:06 (detail) The Olive Tree restaurant, which we visited on Saturday 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:43:30 View east-southeast, detail showing the River Ouse and part of the former Bonded Warehouse 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:45:16 View north from Clifford’s Tower: (left:) tower of St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Church; (left of centre:) spire of St. Mary’s Church, Castlegate; (right:) York Minster 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:45:48 View east-southeast from Clifford’s Tower: (left:) Female Prison and (right:) Debtors’ Prison (now the Castle Museum) 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:46:02 View south-east from Clifford’s Tower: (centre:) former Debtors’ Prison; (right:) Assize Courts (now York Crown Court) 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:48:22 Clifford’s Tower: about to descend by the spiral stairwell in the east lobe 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:48:38 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 12:49:10 Clifford’s Tower: spiral stairwell in the east lobe From Clifford’s Tower, we proceeded northwards, visiting the Marks and Spencer store at 9 Pavement. “I went to M & S for my next two lunches, today and tomorrow,” Janet wrote: “two brown buns and three bananas for today, and a pack of four buns (no ‘twos’, of course!) for tomorrow.” The two brown buns were loose; but so that the bread for tomorrow would stay fresh, she bought the buns in sealed packs. She only wanted two, but they were only sold in packs of four. (It could be that my use of the in-store ATM to withdraw £60.00 was today, not yesterday.) “Then we crossed the road to the Golden Fleece,” Janet’s journal entry continued… “We had a drink and I ate my lunch.” I had a pint of Leeds Brewery Leeds Pale, 3.8% a.b.v. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 13:28:00 The Golden Fleece, 16 Pavement, York 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 13:28:32 The Golden Fleece, 16 Pavement, York 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:16:40 The Golden Fleece, 16 Pavement, York Then we went back the way we’d come, and visited the Castle Museum. We bought a “souvenir guidebook” as well as paying for admission (£26.80 in all). 
“York Castle Museum — Souvenir Guidebook” 
“York Castle Museum” — layout We didn’t consult the guidebook, though, and instead of doing “1”, “2”, “3” and “4” in the former Female Prison to the south of the entrance hall first, we did “5” and “6” in the former Debtors’ Prison to the east. Indeed, I didn’t realise just then that there were two parts to the museum, and when the arrows that we followed brought us back to our starting point, the entrance hall, I expressed my extreme disappointment to Janet. “I thought there was supposed to be a mock-up of a Victorian street,” I said. I’ll come back to this episode later. The arrows led us upstairs to a First World War exhibition. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:33:14 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:33:52 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:34:32 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor Janet didn’t at all want to see the World War I exhibition, and I myself wasn’t keen, so we hurried through it; and at the end of it, the arrows led us downstairs to the exercise yard of the former prison. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:36:48 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor: “1914: When the World Changed Forever” — “Train” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:37:22 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor: “1914: When the World Changed Forever” — “Train” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:46:56 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor: “1914: When the World Changed Forever” — “The world in 1914” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:48:00 Castle Museum, east wing, first floor: “1914: When the World Changed Forever” — “In the Trench” Janet didn’t linger in the exercise yard, but went through the door leading to “The Sixties” exhibition. I looked around the yard, then went through the corner tower to the green space between the surviving portion of the bailey wall and the River Foss, where there was the “Raindale Mill”. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:50:44 Castle Museum: “Exercise Yard” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:51:00 Castle Museum: “Exercise Yard” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:51:52 Castle Museum, east wing (the former Debtors’ Prison), seen from the “Exercise Yard” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:52:58 Castle Museum, “Exercise Yard”: proceeding to “Raindale Mill & Riverside” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:53:48 Castle Museum: “Raindale Mill” I couldn’t understand how the mill would work, because the flume was several feet above the level of the river. I hadn’t read in the guidebook at that point that the 19th century Raindale Mill was so-called because it was originally from Raindale, north of Pickering; and that had been removed from there in the 1950s and rebuilt in its present location in the 1960s. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:55:18 Castle Museum: “Raindale Mill” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:55:26 Castle Museum: surviving bailey wall and southern corner-tower, and former Debtors’ Prison 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:56:38 Castle Museum: “Raindale Mill” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:57:04 Castle Museum: “Raindale Mill” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:59:16 Castle Museum: remains of the southern gate of the castle 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 14:59:44 Castle Museum: “Raindale Mill” and a second corner-tower in the bailey wall 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:00:48 Castle Museum: about to return to the “Exercise Yard” through the southern corner-tower I rejoined Janet in “The Sixties”. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:02:12 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “The Sixties” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:03:02 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “The Sixties” From there, the arrows led through the prison. Janet felt claustrophobic there, and hurried through. I lingered somewhat longer, visiting some of the cells, where projected images of inmates told their tales of woe. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:11:32 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:13:30 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:15:02 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:16:08 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:17:54 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:21:38 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:24:24 Castle Museum, east wing, ground floor: “York Castle Prison” So it was, that we found ourselves back at the entrance hall, thinking that we’d seen all that there was to see. There was a “comments” box, and Janet posted an abusive note into its slot expressing her disgust. I followed suit with a similar one (using the same abusive language). I didn’t see her stuff the souvenir book in the slot as well (it was too big to go all the way in; just the corner was inserted) before she stormed out. I followed her out. I wanted to be sure that we had indeed seen it all, so I asked to see the book. She told me what she’d done with it, so I went back to retrieve it; but I couldn’t remember where the “comments” box was located. So I went back to Janet, and she accompanied me back in. Then we looked at the book, and the plan on the back cover; and we realised that there was a whole wing in the opposite direction from the entrance hall than the direction in which we’d gone earlier. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:33:24 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “The Victorian Parlour, 1870s” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:33:40 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “The Victorian Parlour, 1870s” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:34:18 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “The Moorland Cottage, 1850s” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:34:34 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “The Moorland Cottage, 1850s” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:35:16 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:35:52 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “The Dining Room, 1600s” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:36:30 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “The Georgian Drawing Room, 1780s” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:37:50 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Period Rooms”: “A birthday party in the 1950s Living Room” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:38:18 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Toy Stories” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:40:04 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Fashion” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:40:46 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Fashion” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:41:08 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Fashion” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:42:14 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Fashion” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:43:48 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Food” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:44:36 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Food”: “19th century fireplace” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:44:00 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Food”: “1940s Kitchen” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:45:02 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body: Food”: “1980s Kitchen” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:46:28 Castle Museum, south wing, second floor, “Shaping the Body” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:46:52 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Shaping the Body: Life” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:47:12 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Shaping the Body: Life” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:47:44 Castle Museum, south wing, first floor, “Shaping the Body: Life”: “Tandem Tricycle” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:48:36 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:48:52 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:49:42 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:50:06 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:50:40 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:51:06 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:52:04 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:53:12 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:53:36 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:53:50 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:54:44 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:55:14 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:55:48 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:56:10 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:56:28 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:58:04 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:58:48 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate”: “The Police Cell” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 15:59:38 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:00:54 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:01:38 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:02:10 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:02:34 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” At the end of Kirkgate, we found slot machines that we remembered from our visit in the 1980s, in particular “The English Execution”. But the one showing banjo-playing blackface minstrel puppets with their eyes darting to the left and to the right was now missing. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:04:56 Castle Museum, south wing, ground floor, “Kirkgate” Back in the entrance hall, we had a drink in the café there. Janet was about to confess and apologise for her earlier deed, but I restrained her. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:34:18 Paintings in Castle Museum 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:34:32 Paintings in Castle Museum 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:40:52 The former Female Prison 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:41:24 The former Debtors’ Prison 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:41:58 The former Assize Courts 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:42:16 Clifford’s Tower We went back to the hotel via Castle Mills Bridge over the River Foss and along Piccadilly, because we wanted to see the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, and thence along Pavement and the Shambles. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:45:54 Southern corner-tower of the bailey wall 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:46:40 Remains of the southern gate of the castle 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:47:52 Raindale Mill 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:48:48 Raindale Mill and River Foss 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:50:16 Fishergate Postern Tower 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:56:50 River Foss by the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:57:24 Merchant Adventurers’ Hall 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 16:59:46 Merchant Adventurers’ Hall 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 17:02:10 All Saints’ Church 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 17:05:10 The 17th century Herbert House, 12–14 Pavement, York, next door to the Golden Fleece 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 17:06:16 The Shambles 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 17:08:18 The Shambles We got back to the hotel at 5.25pm. Janet made us a cup of coffee. I copied 160 photos from the camera’s SD card to the WD Elements HDD (17:38–17:39). Looked at them using Windows Photo Viewer, and by the same means rotated 27 of them that needed it (17:42–17:51). Shut down the Samsung computer which I’d been using, disconnected the WD Elements HDD from it, and connected that to the Asus computer. Copied the folder containing today’s photos to the MicroSD card that I keep connected to the Asus. Also copied the folder of photos from the latter trip to Louth (14 September 2019) to the MicroSD card. At ca.6.40pm we set out and visited the Old White Swan pub, walking the length of Petergate, both High and Low, and turning left into Goodramgate to do so. I had a pint of Black Sheep Best Bitter there, and Janet had a diet cola.  Using the Asus computer, which I’d brought with me, I showed Janet the photos I’d taken in York, and also the ones I took on the trip to Louth. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 19:30:22 The Old White Swan, 80 Goodramgate, York On Low Petergate, we’d passed two Italian restaurants earlier in the day next door but one to each other: Wildwood at №87 and Bella Italia at №89. This evening, we chose the latter as the less pretentious of the two. “At ca.7.30pm, we left for an ‘Italian’,” Janet wrote. “It was raining. We went to Bella Italia. It was lovely and toasty in there. [John] had a pizza and I had the best salad I’d ever had: a grilled chicken breast with a mixed salad of leaves, sherry tomatoes, peppers, spring onions and pasta. Scrumptious.” I had a glass of prosecco as an aperativo, and a large glass of house red wine wine. There were options for the pizzas: “Classic”, hand-stretched with a touch of sourdough; “Roma”, hand-stretched further for a thinner and crispier base; “Ripiena Crust”, filled with melting mozzarella and garlic butter. I chose a “Pepperoni Piccante” pizza in “Roma” style. It wasn’t too “juicy” or cheesy: just right. The wedges were perfectly self-supporting when lifted by the edge. 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 20:35:28 Bella Italia, 89 Low Petergate, York 
Monday 23 September 2019 — 20:36:44 Bella Italia, 89 Low Petergate, York It was still raining when we made our way back to the hotel. I copied the three additional photos from today from the camera’s SD card to the WD Elements HDD (21:25). Looked at them using Windows Photo Viewer, and rotated one of them that needed it (21:27).… Janet showered, etc., and we were both in bed ca.10.15pm. [Tuesday 24 September 2019] |
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