So more about York

It had been a very long time since I was last in York (Longer in fact than I am going to admit in this blog) and I had forgotten how beautiful in a tumbled down sort of way the castle ways are or quite how expensive the museums and other attractions are. Often our route from the hotel to whichever part of York we were going to took us past Clifford's tower, which is not a happy site for Jews as there was a massacre there in 1190 when 150 Jewish men and women were surrounded by a mob; they chose to kill themselves rather than be captured, this really marked the start of the declined in quality of life for English Jews ended in the expulsion in 1290 under Edward the first. (A first of many expulsions that would follow. The current tower made of stone is not the same as the one on the site at the time, which was made of wood and was badly damaged in the riots. I had wanted to go inside and say kaddish (The memorial prayer) but the coast of entry was rather high. So I contented myself with staying on the outside. So after we had all decided not to go into Clifford's tower, we head to the museum of York and Castle life, before moving on to that though I should mentions that there is a memorial stone at the foot of the keep, we all found the entry fee for this museum to high as well. As we were about to leave I noticed a goose sitting on top of a bin when we got near we could see that she had made it into her nest and had no less than eight eggs and was if a goose can indeed be this very pleased with herself and she showed us her eggs before settling herself back down. Most of the geese around about the centre of York were less than friendly and so hurried along by advancing geese we head off to walk along the walks towards the Minster in the hopes that this would be an economic way of enjoying ourselves in York.