Kim and I headed up to the north of England on the afternoon of Friday the 13th to stay with the Jones boys, Ben and Danny, returning to London on Sunday evening. We only decided to go up to their home city of Leeds a week prior, so all of the affordable rail tickets had been allocated. A coach trip there and back was quite cheap, but compared to a 2 1/2 hour train ride it did mean a 5 1/2 hour journey north (that's what happens when you choose 5pm on Friday to depart...aaarrgh traffic!). When we arrived the lads picked us up and we went to their village, Barwick-in-elmet. Tiny little place with only a few shops, but 3 pubs. We kicked off our pub crawl of the village, all these places were pretty packed and it's funny how much revolves around these old drinking establishments. Cool to meet up with some of the locals and catch up with Benjo and Danny.
After a good night of painting the village red we jumped on a train to York on Saturday afternoon where we had lunch and a good walk around the city. Danny's friend Dell, who we came across in NZ, also met up with us for our day out. We took in the York cathedral, some ancient buildings and a giant medieval wall surrounding the city, also a few pubs along the way for good measure. The town was pumping as it was York races and the glad-rags were out in force. Found it hard to get into most places, but it added to the fun. We queued up for 45mins at The Gallery nightclub which was bad enough, then to pay £10 cover charge. Ouch! I don't know if it was worth about NZD $25 (Mr. Conversion) just to get in, but it was a pretty choice night out. Ben gave us a lashing of his chips and curry sauce, a favourite greasy meal for the end of the night. Beaut.
All in all a lovely weekend, nice place and nice people. Took the bus home, this time we got a brand new coach with all the trimmings (after our proposed bus broke down just before departure), so this made for a more comfy journey. Thanks for having us North, we'll catch up with you again.
He's here!
Looking up an old friend
Public transport in the village was vastly different to London
River Ouse
Buildings from back in the day
York Minster
The locals dress a bit weird up here
Partying it up 
Ben, Dell, Kim, Danny, Matt
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Interesting to know.
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