conclusion

The weekend passed relaxing in York - sheltered in the Bar Convent, listening to Morley in the Chapter House, taking tea in Betty's, walking the walls, and visiting St Mary's, now ruined, dissolved in Henry's time, used by him as stables for the camp for his Progress, while he stayed in the newly renamed King's House, until then the Prior's lodging.

King's House facade

Bar Convent front door

Back by train. Sunday, so crowded and noisy. Made me long to be back on the buses ...


This year went better than last in many ways. Better planned, perhaps, and better with lighter evenings and warmer weather. But it was a shame to miss many of Henry's more obscure staging points. Maybe the route should be re-traced by car ...

Betty's tea room

Another buspass odyssey ?
Well, if the concessions are still available next year, I was thinking of Stratford to Silver Street - the road that Shakespeare must have traveled often between his two worlds. But not alone this time. Any fellow travellers could make contact by commenting on this blog ...