{"id":14,"date":"2005-02-19T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T19:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=14"},"modified":"2005-09-28T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T12:41:29","slug":"old-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayor.nl\/view\/2005\/02\/19\/old-york\/","title":{"rendered":"(Old) York"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re back from a whirlwind trip to York<\/a>. We departed Amsterdam for Rotterdam\/Europort on wednesday afternoon, to catch the night ferry to (Kingston upon) Hull. We drove from Hull to York, and got to the Wheatlands Lodge hotel at about 9:30. It’s a kind of anniversary for me, as I first stayed there in 1980, when I started my 1st term at YCAT (York College of Art & Technology, as it was then called). Apart from Jan, all of us had been to York previously. All of us was my mother, my brother and sister-in-law and their two daughters, and Jan and myself.
\nThings hadn’t changed as much as I thought they would have. The York Arms<\/a> was exactly as I had left it 20-odd years ago. Or it looked suspicously like nothing had been changed.
\nOther things had changed though: there’s now a Starbucks on the corner of Stonegate and Petergate, with a wireless hotspot. Technology certainly has moved along. It was in York that I saw the first Apple Macintosh. Now if only I could get a wireless card for my iBook….
\nAfter an all-too-brief (not-quite-)two days, we took the ferry back to Rotterdam\/Europort. We’ve only been away two days\/three nights, but it seems like a much longer trip. I suppose that’s good value for money…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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