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22nd June 2017
Mt. Biking: Acaster Malbis to York
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Weather: Cloudy with showers, sunny later and breezy.
Max Speed: 18.21 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 13.89 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Thursday 22nd June – Travel and Bike **** Acaster Malbis to York – walk *** Evening stroll along the Ouse

Cloudy with showers, sunny later and breezy.

13.89 miles, out 3 hrs. 20 mins., max speed 18.21 kt

Our second night safely night locked in the Kiveton Community Woodland carpark but woke to cloud and workers strimming the grass, nice smell shame about the noise! So, after breakfast we packed up and headed North to York. We were soon on the M1, then M18 by passing Doncaster on the A1(M) before turning right on the A64, it was then we realised that we were nearly there and needed a shop having just driven past Tadcaster our best bet for a supermarket. We were heading for Acaster Malbis on the Ouse with the aim of biking into York along the river but this area is rather flat and remote with only small villages with no shops! Acaster Malbis is right on the river but overnight parking was looking a problem with the river footage taken by with private moorings, a camping site and pub carpark. With light showers and York only 3 miles away we went looking for a shop. After a couple of miles we found a small Co-op in Bishopthorpe and stocked up with cake,pie,bread,cheese and ham , we know how to live:) Then back to the river, we saw the sign post for the footpath to York by the campsite and then spotted a church just along the road, usually a good place to park. The Holy Trinity Church was very pretty with its wooden steeple, overgrown grave yard and large carpark, sadly locked! but our luck was in when just past the church there was the perfect place to stop with a field of cows and views down to the river:)
It was only about 1 o clock as we got here much quicker than expected so while Mag packed a picnic I went to get the bikes off just as it started to drizzle. Change of plan, lunch in the van. With the rain stopped but still overcast and breezy we set off on the bikes at 13.21. At the campsite, we turned left and soon found the River Ouse which to be honest is a little uninspiring. Miles of tatty moorings with white cruising boats and very few narrow boats, many run down and dirty:( People had fenced off loads of plots by the river which looked like a shanty town! We soon came to Bishopthorpe again with a posh Palace which might have something to do with Nuns? Back on the roads we came to the end of York Horse racecourse and Mag spotted someone biking across the track so we pushed our bike down the steep bank. We soon joined the cycle track to York centre which took us right along the racecourse fence, past the grandstand and up into the city. The traffic was a little hectic and the first city wall at Micklegate, the road was closed so we continued past the impressive railway station with the city wall to our right. Then the large and imposing Cathedral came into view so we headed there over the Ouse again with a mix of modern office blocks to Grand hotels! The Minister is impressive being very huge and ornate. There was a long queue of people wanting to see inside as their bags had to be checked and I bet you had to pay. As one young, American tourist said to her mother once you have seen one Cathedral you have seen them all! We found a nice seat in a little park with great views, sat watching the world go by while having our flask and a chocolate bar. Loads of Clergy walked past with suitcases, must have been a conference for Vicars!!!
Refreshed we did a complete circuit of the outside of the Cathedral seeing the lovely old Treasury house with a nice garden, listened to the busker with his guitar, but the world is only big enough for one ginger haired singer and Ed Sheeran has got that gig! We then walked the narrow pedestrian streets that are the ‘Shambles’ full of tourists and the usual shops to match. Several miming buskers trying to make a living which we gave a wide berth! We followed the signs to the small castle on a hill accessed by steep steps but you had to pay so gave that a miss and headed back down to the river with its bars but sadly the grass all covered in goose crap:( We had had enough of this tourist heaven so headed back to the Micklegate City gate we first came to and discovered you could walk the walls for free. We locked our bikes up and went for a nice walk past the station again nearly making it back to the Minster. Then back to the Racecourse and Bishopthorpe stopping at the Co-op for a tin of custard to go with the cherry pie bought earlier and back to the van for a well-deserved cuppa and cake:)
The sun had decided to show its face, I filled up our water bottle in the graveyard then after tea we went for a walk back to the river. We ended up walking past the campsite, pub to the boatyard past some pretty cottages with their own moorings ending up at a large weir which we think marks the start of the tidal river with a lock allowing you access to the Humber. On the way, back we saw several kingfishers and a heron fishing then back to the van for a night by the graveyard – no unfriendly ghosts I hope:)

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