York, a beautiful bust.

The girls and I did our best to make the most of our time in York but we found it tough to have much fun while worrying about poor Na in hospital. However, I can say that York is really beautiful. Everything about it is attractive. Its smallish size - it's nearly contained by its ancient walls, its meandering rivers and boats, its pubs, its cafes, the shopping, the shambles, the market, the Minster and the historical stuff. 

Thinking we could use a good diversion I thought we would try the York Dungeon Experience. So good it was too good! Girls scared so witless w/in 20 mins we had to abandon. We're talking 4D effects, here. Live actors, jump scares, blood spatter on your face, smashing (stained glass) windows, leaches squirming under your bum as you sit on the pews. I'd have loved to have stayed but we'd all had enough high anxiety by then.

Na talks of the great service at the hospital, I'll plug the good people at the Best Western Dean Court Hotel. Now, BW isn't typically top of my list for hotel custom, but I booked this one blindly for its location and because we were going to be just 1 night. OMG this is a great little hotel. Really nicely appointed, a fine restaurant and bar, and great staff. They were very accommodating of all our uncertainty and went out of their way to keep our room free from other bookings in case we needed to stay on longer. And gave me a discount on the additional nights to boot. A class act. And how's this for location (that's the Minster right out our window)? Plus a neat, big family suite was ours.

Settled in London now. Getting our bearings and counting our blessings.