York: Day 2 (The Hogwarts Express!)

The York Minster

The highlight of any trip to York is a visit to the York Minster, one of northern Europe's greatest Gothic cathedrals (and home...wait for it...to the largest stained glass window in the world, they say). Click the link for a virtual tour (or come visit us, definitely better).

Paul and I are starting to sort out visiting some of the grandest sites with little ones (a lot of taking turns during tours) and gobs of patience (ours). But we're enjoying it, to be sure.

After the Minster, we ambled to Betty's Tea Room, an English institution,  for lunch where the kids went mental over the pudding cart.

Betty's

Every child's best memory: the dessert cart

So Yum.

Driving Miss Charlotte

Then it was off to the National Railroad Museum (THE railroad museum in the UK), where we all ogled the trains, the history and the Hogwarts Express. It was Paul who found the Platform 9 3/4 sign, which they recently removed from Kings Cross station during an extensive renovation. 

The Hogwarts Express