Selby to York

20 miles (32km) and it was almost sunny some of the time.

Today marks some what a milestone for us, as we rode along the river and through the gates of the walls around York we'd arrived back somewhere we've both been itching to be again since last time a few years ago in winter. It's also been something to look forward to during the last 10 or so hours we rode in the rain and now we're here having ridden off the end of our first map (~15 odd to go). The sun also came out for about 2min while Alex took this photo in a little village along the way.



We left the hotel in Selby pretty early, skipping their not included breakfast to go into the town center of Selby itself. It was cold, and then it started raining, at least we were still following the pretty canal into town. A quick trip to the bakery and then we popped into Selby Abbey, amazingly big and ornate for such a small town church and also inspiring to look at a building 800+ years old. We hit the trail again and after going through a little satellite village we were onto the main reclaimed railway route to York. 15 miles, almost perfectly straight and all bitumen.



We were also traveling in through the solar system. Pluto is about 15 miles out from York and an 2m diameter sun hangs above the end of the trail. There are also quite a few cool artifacts like this Cassini Probe.



The last 3 miles into York itself follows the river through parks and the walls of the old city. A quick right, left, left and then another right and we're at the one of the nicest places I think we've ever stayed in our lives. (Score one for Alex and one for www.tripadvisor.com) The bikes safely tucked away around the back in a shed, locked to each other, locked behind a door and locked behind a gate, so they should be a bit happier about that than last night.

Next stop, the Railway Museum and 2 days of wandering the walls, abbey and the shambles... Toot Toot.