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  London II When we returned to London near the end of our journey we were both exhausted and not in the mood for any more adventures. But we were delighted to reunite with my old friend from graduate school, Nandita Batra. She was in London for a month. Nandita is an English professor at the University of Mayaguez in Puerto Rico. Here we are in a pub near our hotel, the Sidney. And that was more or less the end of our adventure. Well, not quite. The next day would turn out to be probably the worst travel day we've ever had. Our flight to Atlanta was fine. But after that things went south. The flight we had to take us to Rochester, scheduled for around 11 pm, was cancelled after we had taxied toward take off. Remarkably, we took so long to get going that the pilot "timed out"; that is, he'd reached the time limit for flying. So we had to go back to the airport and deplane. Then, if it's possible, matters actually got worse. We stood in a long line at Delta until t...
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York Our room in York, in Monkbridge House ... ... was charming and included this four poster: The B&B was close to center city, the old part of York that is surrounded by a centuries-old wall. There are several gates that allow access to center city; this is Monk Gate, closest to our B&B. The pride of the city is York Minster, the largest cathedral in Northern Europe.  It's difficult to capture in photos the size of the space inside Minster, with its soaring columns and groined vaulting high above the floor. We took an abbreviated tour of the cathedral interior; we left it early to join the Under the Crypt tour, which took us into the bowels of the structure. There, we learned how the cathedral was built and rebuilt over many centuries. Afterward, we took a Rick Steves self-guided tour of York, including walking atop the wall that surrounds it. Close to the Minster is a modern sculpture of Constantine, who was named emperor while he was in York and where he stayed for...
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