Sunsets really are beautiful, and rare to see like this...
いつか、大切な人と一緒にこんなにきれいな夕焼けを見たいなぁ～

We then went to some shops, and after, headed for Clifford Tower (on the picture below). You had to pay to go in and climb it, which we didn't, of course XD The view was nice enough from just the top of the mound, and though it was prohibited, we walked around the tower on the grass and took photos of the sunset (*_*) The Yorkshire sunsets are really beautiful, both days were wonderful to watch *__* Anyway, after that, it was already getting dark and we were hungry, so we went back to an all-you-can-eat Cantonese buffet we saw earlier that day. Oh man... we stuffed ourselves so much!!! I filled my plate 3 times with just main courses, then 3 more times with dessert... (the others ate just as much, if not more than me :D) We spent over 2 hours in there XDDD Finally we managed to stand up, catch the bus and go home. We didn't realise it was the last bus though, and that we missed our stop... but the driver was nice, and took us back after everyone else got off at the last stop :) Then we just talked in our room and went to bed around 1.

On Sunday, we decided to hire bikes, since it was nice weather, and cycle around York somewhere. We left at 10:45, and my bike was acting strangely after 10 minutes (I couldn't stop cycling, otherwise the chain started getting screwed up if the pedals didn't move), but I figured, oh well it's not that bad. I took it into a bike shop about 1 hour after we left because it was a bit annoying, they said the gear was broken and it has to be changed completely, though I can ride it like that as well. I did, I didn't want to waste time going back and changing the bike. We saw a sign showing a bike route to a town called Selby, 14 miles from York, so we decided to cycle to Selby. It was a nice countryside, so peaceful and quiet! We took photos of some sheep, and just generally how peaceful it all was compared to London (which I also like... just in a different way) *___*

Now, the thing was... our bikes didn't have lamps, and it gets dark around 5 -5:30. Knowing we wouldn't get back to York in 2 hours, we started to worry... not just about not seeing anything on the cycling path what with the thin crescent moon, but also the fact that police fine you if you don't have a lamp on your bike at night @_@ Plus, without the lamps, we were scared to cycle on roads, in case a car hits us. So we tried to hurry, but Mari was at the end of her strength :( We took turns to push her... Eveline more than me... I kind of sucked at it T_T Then, much to our delight, with the sun already setting and us still not being far from Selby, on some muddy-grassy cycle track different from the one we came on, my crappy bike (which Eveline was riding to give me a little break) had the chain come off TWO gears. Great, now what. I had some tissues, so I tried to keep my hands clean while I put it back onto the main gear. But as for the smaller one at the back - it got stuck -_- So much that Eveline couldn't even push the pedals. I then tried tugging, pulling, various methods, and finally managed, with joint effort of all of us, to put the chain back on... by that time, my hands were covered in oil, Eveline had quite some too, and we were pissed like hell. What to do... bike sucks, Mari is really tired, Sun is setting, and York is still 13 miles away???

Well, we tried to take a bus back, but no bus would carry 3 bikes (they don't even carry one. No surprise), so all we could do was head on and hope to, um... not get lost in the dark on the cycle track, which had no lamps and no road near it or anything. We pushed Mari (again, Eveline pushed more) and slowly but surely, we neared York, on a somewhat better and probably faster track than the one we came on. That was OK, but when we neared York, I don't know how much it troubled the others, but I was seriously worried about not having lamps @_@ it's dangerous, and we could be fined even if nothing hits us. So we carefully, on the sidewalks, sometimes walking and sometimes riding, managed to reach the Pizza Hut in the city centre around 7 pm. Bliss.......... we had a meal, and wondered why we could only manage 1 helping of unlimited ice cream that came with our menu. Hmmmm. That night, we were all in an 8-person dorm, and there was this old lady (wtf... I thought it was a youth hostel) who snored so it was kind of hard to go to sleep -_-;

However, early waking again on Monday morning, breakfast at 9, and then checkout from the room. We left our stuff in the luggage room of the hostel, and went into the centre again. Mari bought some candy for her friends, then we went to the York Castle Museum. Again, so much better than what I'd expected!!! It was really big, really interesting, and original! Everything that had to do with York and life in York, from the 18th century up until 2007, was there - but mostly Victorian things. There was even a reconstructed area of the Victorian streets... with real cute shops, model school, bank, confectioner's, bookshop, toy shop, stable, blacksmith, candlemaker, horse carriage... it was made dark too, so the lamps looked even better.

By the way, below there, is a reconstructed model of a privy. With poo in it. Plastic poo. Hilarious!
After that, we paid a visit to Starbucks, and I picked a vanilla cream frappuccino. I TOLD Eveline it was nice (though I'd never tried it before either, but come on, it's vanilla frappuccino, it's from Starbucks, it's GOTTA be nice! XD) but she said she'd be safe and order a vanilla hot chocolate. OK... then I let her taste mine, and she loved it so much, she and Mari ordered one too (after their original drinks), so we had our lunch there with the frappuccinos XD By the way, the lunch was stolen from breakfast at the hostel. Well, I *am* Hungarian :P
Then, with a little more bus complications, we got our luggage back from the hostel, went back to the train station, and finally arrived safe and sound back to Kings Cross :)

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