York

These are from my trip to York the school had set up for all of the international students for the first weekend we arrived. It was really neat but not enough time to see the entire city. We actually went up in the tower and then we went out for tea, I don't have those pics though, they'll prolly end up on facebook though. Then we came back to the Minster and took our time.

The one on the left of this paragraph is of the Rose window which I only thought was on Notre-Dame but apparently England and France have had a War of the Roses for a while.

These are the pictures of the remains of the Roman fortress and the wall that surrounded the city.

Right above this one is St. Mary's Abbey

This is of a pic of the York City Art Gallery

And as you can see the others are just some of the crazy stain glass, you know the usual, Mary and baby Jesus, a wall of the saints (i think), Adam and Eve, God smiting people.

York Minster, This is the second biggest minster in England next to the Westminster and I believe if not half, more than half of all the stain glass in England is in York. Which really prolly means just this building. The Great East window depicts the beginning to the end of the world in over 100 scenes.

Also you can tell it's from the Gothic era because of the flying buttresses. In one of the shots from the top of the tower you can see the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey and in front of the Minster there is part of an old Roman fortress.

The other one is Nataija and I on top of the tower. A little note, the winding staircase to get to the top was crazy narrow and steep, and it was freezing at the top which is why I look like a goon, all in all though well worth it.