On to Cambridge

After York we took the train down to Cambridge to see Gran Helen. While we were there we were also visited by the Oaktains, who cunningly rented an airbnb just down the road from Gran Helen, with patio doors that opened onto the orchard, giving the kids tons of space to run around. We visited the Natural History Museum, and the Computing History Museum (which Bluet and Caroline loved and Ilona and Madeleine hated (Bluet wanted to live there, presumably to play Sonic the Hedgehog for the rest of her life). We also took a walk to Granchester, and the double decker bus back. Oh, and the guided bus to St Ives (not that one).

Gran Helen and Uncle Nick

A couple of weeks ago Gran Helen and Uncle Nick came to stay, and help with the kids while Veronika had the week off.

Ilona playing memory with Nick


We managed a weekend trip up to the woods, where Bluet and Ilona ran off to play in some pre existing shack.


Hide and Seek


Baby sitting up

York Travel Guide

York has many attractions and entertainments available for the discerning visitor - notably the railway museum, which sadly we missed this year, the tiny record shop. Also, there is a lot of history, seeing as it was the capital of Britain in Viking and Roman times. So for entertainments for the kids, we visited several of York's finest museums. Here they are.

First the castle museum, built in some old prisons on the site of some old castle or other. It has lots of rooms done up like the past (including a 1980s kitchen, with the kind of cupboards everyone had), and most excitingly, an entire victorian street recreated indoors.



In the olden days children could be thrown in prison if they refused to be seen and not heard.



An olden days school


Then there is the Yorkshire museum, which has a lot of history. Here the kids can be seen enjoying the history, including walking on a genuine Roman mosaic floor



Then there is this one called the dig where you can pretend to be an archaeologist - here they are digging up some bones. You also get to handle fossilised poo, to the great amusement of all children



So Wilder, what did you think of the museums of York?


There are also many hostelries, many of which also sell food and provide spaces for children to draw whilst parents relax. Here is Ilona's picture from the pub.



And Gran Helen came to hang out with all her grandchildren too.