{"id":8711,"date":"2015-08-06T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:08:51","slug":"cambridge-and-oxford-some-famous-university-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/other-trips\/trips-europe\/europe-2015\/cambridge-and-oxford-some-famous-university-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge and Oxford \u2013 some famous university towns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2015.07.31 – Edinburgh (Scotland) \u2013 York (England)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We woke up early this morning and took the tram back into the city center. The tram had fewer passengers at 8:30am than yesterday at 10:30am. In town, we stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast and a washroom break. We only needed to walk a short distance to the train station. We quickly understood the reason that our train fare was much cheaper, we had boarded a cross country train. The train was full and we struggled for awhile to store our luggage. Upon our arrival at York, we walked over to the conveniently located Travelodge hotel. As we had only been able to book a two single bed room, I had planned to sleep on our camping mattress which we had brought along with us. As we arrived a few hours before check-in, we left our luggage at the hotel reception and headed out to explore this new city. We bought some sandwiches and ate them at a nearby park. Afterwards, we climbed up the city wall and walked along it. We made our way back to the hotel where Victoria took the back door to enter the hotel. Jenny managed to a large clothes wash. We took full advantage of our room’s portable fan to dry our clothes over night. In the early evening, we dropped by an Italian restaurant for supper – Prezzo. Later, we explored the The Shambles streets and got to see the Minster.<\/p>\n\n\n