York Jorvik Viking Festival
By Darren Cronian on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

This weekend I am taking a photography trip to my favourite city in England, that’ll be York. I love the city because of its history, cobbled streets, olde world shops, and the architecture of buildings like the York Minster, Clifford’s Tower, and Holy Trinity Church.

York Jorvik Viking Festival
Picture of Clifford Tower, taken by Jenthepen8 on Flickr.

Just in case you don’t know York is located in North Yorkshire, England, has a population of 186,800 and its history can be traced back nearly 2,000 years when the Romans were in power, but more importantly, two centuries later the city became an important trading centre for the Vikings.

Check out these cool photographs tagged York on Flickr.

Useful sites:

Visit York
What’s on York
City of York

This weekend it’s the Jorvik Viking Festival which keeps alive the 1000-year-old tradition of ‘Jolablot’, the original Viking festival that celebrates the end of the long, cold, northern winter nights and the coming of spring.

It only takes 20 minutes by train from Leeds to York, and I am hoping the weather is good to take some photographs and get used to my new camera in preparation for my trip to Oslo next week. Expect loads of new pictures on Sunday!


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5 responses to “York Jorvik Viking Festival”

Karen Bryan | 14 February, 2007 at 1:31 pm

York is a beautiful city, I’m sure you will get some great photos. One of our sons was considering going to study at York University. I took him there for an Open Day. However he decided to study in Glasgow so my thoughts about trips to York to visit him never materialised.

Rohan | 16 February, 2007 at 10:05 am

I hope the weather in York is better than the weather here.

Debbie | 20 February, 2007 at 12:22 am

Wow lovely picture of Clifford Tower. Can you actually get into this tower Darren or is it for show?

Darren Cronian | 20 February, 2007 at 12:30 am

I wish my version of Clifford tower was as nice as that picture. Im suspecting this pic was taken in the Summer, where my pic was taken in the winter, and its not come out too well.

Yes, for a few £s you can get into the tower, walk around it and walk to the top of it, this is where I took some good pictures with views of the Minster and Big Wheel.

MIke | 24 March, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Hi….I’m sure you will love it there. Try to pick a “not too busy” period though

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