today's technology which provides us with easy access to photography, which allowed me to capture so many memories of my trip -- York is much on my mind today

Not much to report for this last leg of the journey, just involving getting from Gatwick back to Canada. Here's me girding my mental loins before checking out of the hotel in the morning:

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Part of today's adventure was seeing the Viking museum Jorvik. I have always dug Viking stuff so I looked forward to this, although I was the only one who did, and the only one who went.( dim blurry pics )

Once again I was greeted by a sunny (albeit brisk) morning:

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Short and sweet today - didn't visit any new streets, and spent a good chunk of the day pushing a wheelchair which didn't give me much opportunity to free up my hands and take a plethora of pics. But there are some! Never fear!

First thing this morning I popped out to M&S to get milk for breakfast -- and noticed that M&S has a nifty clock:

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I decided not to go on walkabout today, so I will have no new historic sites with which to regale you. A week of unwonted walking finally caught up with me, so I was beat and just wanted to take it easy today. But I awoke to a bright sunny morning, serenaded by far-off church bells... so when I went out for coffee I captured the clear sky and the cheery sun on the buildings around my block:

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Today's jaunt was short but sweet, taking in stretches I have seen many times along with ones brand new to me! After a damp morning, a sunny break coaxed me out:

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I thought this was gonna be a quiet day, cuz it was rainy and no one felt like going out. But then after breakfast, we ended up going across the street to shop at Primark and I got some new T-shirts. Then we came back home for lunch and I felt like I didn't wanna waste the couple of remaining hours of daylight... so I put my hood up and went on a wander to places I hadn't been before.

I travelled west along the River Foss:

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After we checked out this morning, Margery and her clan treated us to breakfast out, then took us back to her place for a parting visit -- where I saw more of those crowned chimneys:

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We are staying at the Premier Inn in Halifax, West Yorskshire. It is clean, comfy, and well maintained, with an excellent shower - perfectly suitable for us in every respect but one: its free wifi is cranky, spotty, and at times dead. (The fact that they also explicitly advertise the availability of their higher-performance paid wifi raises a suspicious eyebrow.)

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