York in 24 Hours - What to do for 24 Hours in England's Historical City of York | UK Travel Vlog
YORK | York is a beautiful city in the north of England with a rich history dating back to the Roman era. It's a great place to visit for a weekend getaway or a longer holiday. In this vlog, I'll be sharing our experience of spending 24 hours in York.
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0:00 Intro
0:23 Micklegate Bar
1:13 York City Wall
3:19 Gatehouse Coffee
4:46 York Centre
5:30 Shamble Market
6:04 Double Dutch Pancakes
6:58 Shambles Street
8:29 Merchant Adventurers' Hall
9:00 Clifford's Tower
11:24 York Minster
12:01 Guy Fawkes Inn
12:32 Jorvik Viking Centre
14:41 The Market Cat
15:45 Döner Summer
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One small but significant correction - JK Rowling has made it clear that it wasn't the inspiration even though she regularly went between London and Edinburgh and would have been familiar with it. It was, however, one of the sources of inspiration for the movie version :) Some of the Harry Potter shops sometimes like to misrepresent events (like other York touristy places like the Guy Fawkes Inn which wasn't where he was born, Richard III museum that likes to present a slightly skewed version of his life and various others) in ways that conveniently happen to suit their business 😇 Overall there were a few notable omissions and minor points (and York Minster is worth the price because it has Saxon and Roman stuff beneath it and a great view) but for 24 hours it's really hard to do the city justice so you did a decent job of representing what it's like imho!
Oh wow! Thanks for fact checking us there 🙌🏼 you are a fountain of information 🤩 I’ve pinned your comment for others to read 😁 I do wish we visited the York Minster now… 😅 next time we will for sure!!
@@cjexplores happy to help, and definitely I usually say the Minster, Yorkshire Museum and Castle Museum are the three "must see" (along with tourist favourites Jorvik and York Dungeons, and the walls and shambles) so you definitely need to come back ;) Lots of good guides in York who will happily give you planning advice and fun facts (for free), too! 😊 But don't let us talk about food and drink because we have tons of national award winning breweries, gin makers, coffee creators, fine dining, street food, fish and chips, and all sorts of others, and local tour guides will cry at some of the prices in this vid haha. Keep up the good work 😊
@@theyorkrose5274 amazing, thank you so much for all the tips 🙏🏼❤️ we will get back to this comment thread when we plan a return trip and send you a message 😉
@@cjexplores happy to help!
Yeah same in Porto there's a book shop that tries to claim it inspired jk risking, which is a lie but suits them as business was booming!
We are at the Gatehouse Coffee now thanks to your video. Don’t know how we’ve missed it previously. Thanks for the tip
Awesome! Great little spot isn’t it?! 🤩
What a awesome day you both had.
Wow loved the day you had, so much interesting history. Loved the wall walk.
Thanks team xx ❤️❤️
Great video editing!! Glad you enjoyed York!
Thanks Rich 🙏🏼❤️ we had a lovely time!
Another great video York well shown and brilliant commentary
Thanks for watching! York is such an interesting city, there’s so much history there.
Hallo how joy again pretty nice to watch your travel every things fantastic along with your so many spots can be seeing from you .l just watch all steps while you walking along place to place amazing so beautiful thanks more and more video display
Yes of course!! We will continue to share our adventures for a long time to come!! ❤️🙏🏼 nice to see you again ✌🏼
Just found your channel and love your videos! So going to binge them now… you deserve a lot more subscribers!!
Hi guys 👋🏼 thanks for letting us know! Lovely to have you here ❤️ working in the subscriber thing, producing more Shorts over the coming weeks 😁 hopefully it helps!
I found your channel by accident but I'm very impressed how amazing vlogs are you guys making!! Cant wait to watch all your content in very very soon, this channel should be much more popular.
Thank you kasiula 🥰🙏🏼❤️ we are happy to have your support!
When I lived in York in the 1980s, there were 366 pubs - one for every day of the year!
😂 random fact but could make for a very long and very diverse pub crawl!!! 🍻
There still is, and you can buy a York pub "tube map" that gives you a bunch of pub crawl ideas including the suburbs :)
@@theyorkrose5274 epic 🤩
So I wonder how the 366th pub stayed in business, if people were only visiting it one day, every four years! 😕
such a great video !!
Thank you Sess 🙏🏼❤️ glad you enjoyed 😉
What a great informative and fun video! We plan to visit more places in the UK this year! That viking museum looks so cool we are so intrigued by anything viking haha!
Thanks you two! There’s so much Viking history in the UK, as you would know there were many Viking raids over the years and most people in there UK have some DNA shared with their Norwegian counterparts
All your vlogs deserve more views! Keep up with the brill content !
Thanks YH STIG 🙌🏼😁 appreciate the love ❤️
York is the best, so beautiful ❤️
Thanks for your lovely comment!
Its so beautiful country in western world with green land it has amazing peace and calmly landscape you are try always throng energy powerful journey you have show all are wonderful fairly land great thankful
England is so beautiful 🤩 and with such an interesting history! Thanks for watching, nice to read your comments again ❤️🙏🏼❤️
Just found your channel after coming back from York and wondering if there was much that we missed and omg there was 🙈😂 wonderful video love the vegan content too 💚 I can’t believe we didn’t try the pancakes!
oh amazing! You'll have to go back someday ❤️
I think this is the first video I have seen that really explores this ancient city and gives people the chance to 'catch' the real flavour of York. I saw your video on the Mark from the States site and would have missed it if I wasn't a regular viewer of his - and that would have been a shame. Thank you for your vlog. I have liked and subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching all your new adventures.
Hi JJ! 👋🏼 and welcome to our channel!! I’m so glad you found us. Mark was very courteous and sent us an email before he went ahead and made his video, he seems like a really nice guy! We have a lot of content from around the UK and Europe but at the moment we are exploring the South Island of New Zealand. We have playlists for each region so you can easily find any area that interests you! 😉
amazing
Thanks Mahamudul 🙏🏼❤️
Great Video
Thank you!!!
I live only about 40 miles from York, so it was a favourite destination for organised 'pub crawls'. I still remember the last one I went on: I worked in IT at the time, and was on call: in the days before mobile phones, that meant I had to carry a pager! It was near to the end of the evening, and various of our 'companions' (read: 'fellow pissheads'!) had been trying to run up the mound of Cliffords Tower. I reckoned I could do it, simply be leaning forward and walking (doggedly!) up there. I succeeded, but then thought it would be a good idea to slide all the way down again , (on my backside obviously: I hadn't brought my skis!!) which I did. Unfortunately on the way down, I lost my pager, but didn't realise I had until I was back home. I received one hell of a bollocking when I got back to work.
🤣🤣🤣 what a story! Sounds like you had some fun back in the day Dave 🙌🏼
🤩At 4.02 into your video, in the drone shot I can see fellow KZheadrs the *MIDWEST AMERICANS* Nathan and Angela (who was wearing a navy jacket and carrying an orange Sainsbury's bag) filming on the wall when they visited York this summer. So you were all in the same place at the same time!!! What a small world it is! It would have been amazing if you had got together and collaborated! 😃Perhaps next time you could invite them back to the UK and show them around your old stomping grounds 🙂
Hi Cloud Trumpet! It’s funny you notice that because we actually did meet them 😁 we were leaving the next day unfortunately so we couldn’t get together, but it was nice to meet some people in the same field as us 😁 they don’t normally do travel vlogs do they? So it would have been a weird match I think. They are lovely people though! I’m guessing you’re a big fan?
@@cjexplores I have an eye for detail, and couldn't help but notice the Sainsburys bag that has appeared throughout much of their vacation lol 😁 No they don't do travel type stuff, just an eclectic mix of things such as reactions. It think it must be the You Tube algorithm that has paired your videos together😁 I really enjoy watching your travels, especially the great camera work, how much you are able to pack into your trips, and the tips on where to find vegan food
@@cloudtrumpet1786 well a big thank you to KZhead for pairing us 😁 like a nice meal and a glass of vegan wine 🍷 glad to have you on our channel 😉 always lovely to have more support out there 🙏🏼❤️
Em fevereiro do ano passado fui para a Inglaterra 🇬🇧, visitei York 2x, muito legal 😍❤️🇬🇧
Awesome!! 🙌🏼 sounds like a great trip!
The similarity with Chester is incredible. Only other complete walled city in uk. Cathedral and buildings all amazingly alike. Even the Art Deco Odeon. No shambles in Chester however theres no amphietheatre in York.
How interesting! We never had Chester on our list, maybe we should add it!!
Re Cathedrals normally being free to enter. I believe York is free to enter to be part of the congregation at a service, which I believe is true in all English churches.
Yes I think you're right there... 👍🏼
Thanks for such an interesting video on York, you did well, i visited York early July this year 2023, just to many tourists, to expensive especially for those with little money and kids and i was warned by the vary nice York minster policeman to make sure my push bike was chained up and not to take my eyes of it as two expensive electric bikes was stolen in broad daylight the day before, the thieves used hand powered grinders to cut through the chains. i couldn't wait to leave mostly of all the visitors, but if you go, beware! take lots of money, go when its quiet and enjoy.
Thank you for sharing your experience John, I'm sure it's very valuable to those looking to go 🙏🏼 glad that nothing like that happened to you ❤️
Do one for Bath in Somerset!
Hey Singh! It is on our To-Do list!!! Any recommendations for there?
im going here february 23 for 3 days 2 nights!
Amazing, have a wonderful trip!! Make sure you visit Jorvik to learn about the vikings ⚔️
okk ill make sure!@@cjexplores
i love your videos ❤.. in which month did you visit?
We were there in June last year I believe 😁👌🏼
Wow the prices have certainly gone up in the past 5 years. Even more expensive than London.
I think that’s just the places we went to. I’m sure if you wanted bargains you could find them!!
Good camera and sound, is Canon g7x ii? or external mic?
It' a Lumix GH5 with a Rode VideoMicro. Quite old now 😅
I love Thornbridge Jaipur - an excellent IPA with background flavours of grapefruit, lemon and tropical fruits, but I have some bad news for you - It ISN'T Vegan friendly as it uses Isinglass finings to clarify it: and that's extracted from the swim bladders of dead fish!
I hate how they use animal products to process beer and wine 🤦♂️ what happened to a good old sieve?!
I saw you walked past The Golden Fleece but didn’t go in it’s the most haunted pub in York
Oh my goodness!! How did we miss it?! 😭 thanks for letting us know 🙏🏼
Fun fact york is home to the biggest trains meuseum in england
Ahhhh how interesting....! ☺️
Which camera do you use?
This was all filmed on a GH5 and DJI gimbal 😊
Very interesting with lots of quirky facts. The only gripe I have is with the soundtrack which is irritating and drowns the dialogue.
Hey Andrew, thanks for the feedback. We are always working on our soundtrack and try to make it as seamless and intertwined with the feel of the video as possible. Good for us to know we missed the mark on this one ☝🏼 🙏🏼
I live in York
Nice one Aaron, did we do it justice??
The mound ( motte ) the castle is sat on is not Roman, it’s Norman, built in the 11th century by William the conqueror. There is another one facing it across the river the same size that the defenders ( Normans ) would stretch a chain across, to stop any would be raiders from sailing up the river and into the centre of York to attack it.
Amazing! Thanks for clearing that up Dick 🙏🏼 we were totally fascinated with all of the history in York 🤩 are you a local or a tour guide or something?
@@cjexplores You can say I’m a local, living just 10 minutes away from York. I have a big interest in history ( I’m in my mid 50’s,but in my 20’s I used to go on archaeological digs around Yorkshire ) and have visited York literally hundreds of times through work or shopping, and I never get bored of walking around this 2,000 year old gem. You should have gone to the Roman Bath pub in Sampson square, a two minute walk from the minster, where for a £2 fee, you can go under the pub and visited the actual baths the legionary soldiers used to bathe in.
@@dickdastardly1883 incredible!! We had no idea. So great to have local knowledge! I’m going to pin your comment for others to see 😁🙌🏼❤️
@@cjexplores 👍🏻
York was the only place in the UK that William I built two castles outside of London, because York was the most rebellious. York kept burning them down so William committed genocide across the North (the harrying) which is a big part of the North South divide. Way too simplistic to be accurate but it's a very brief intro to a fascinating part of English, UK and York history :)
How many miles are the walls?
Ooooh not sure on that one, have you asked google??
Been York today 😂
Good timing!!
Shame you missed 2 great places. Inside York Minster and the Railway Meusium
Hi Eric 👋🏼 yes we did miss those off our video, we couldn’t make it to everything unfortunately!
Kilometers, Back Yards? I know those words. Then you said Brisbane. I don't hear those words around these parts
Haha sorry, I let the kiwi upbringing shine through a bit there 😝
Those prices are obviously for tourists. No Yorkshireman would ever pay them!
I know in Newquay a lot of places do a “locals card”, maybe the same thing exists in certain places in York?? 😂
I suppose once in, say a year, would be OK?
Interesting that you missed out on the medieval massacre of the Jews in Clifford's Tower. The figures in Yorvick Experience are based on real people, some of whom are friends of mine when I used to work in York, back in the 1980s
You know what? We actually *do* remember reading that when we’re inside. There were so many info boards with stories of different times and different attacks! We probably just forgot to include it! But thank you for highlighting it here 🙏🏼 nice one Chris ✌🏼
That damn motorbike spoiled your intro love! Should have re done the sound on the intro!
Thanks Gazz! The joys of filming in an uncontrolled environment 🥲
What? Nearly 18 minutes of video including drones, and not a single shot of a Russian T-72, BMP or MT-LB being blown up? Just people (with lotsa money!) filling their faces. I'm going back to UAExpress. (Only kidding. Nice video guys - makes a welcome change to watching camo-carriages being blasted to smithereens. I quite forgot that cafés existed). lol
😂😂 thanks for watching!
Only £22.96 for 2 Adults entry into the Yorvik Centre with 'English Heritage' membership - Normally £13.50 each (£27.00 in total.) A massive saving of £4.04 (or £2.02 each!) That English Heritage membership doesn't seem as much of a bargain buy now, really! I hope you're staying in England for the entire year to get your money's worth!
Yes it’s only worth it if you visit a few sites - fortunately we already had a few we wanted to visit lined up so we have more than made up for our membership! We visited Stonehenge, Whitby Abby and loads of castles etc 🏰
@@cjexplores Did you consider any National Trust sites? There are loads of those, where if you pay for National Trust membership for a couple, you'll get into them for free, plus you'll get free parking at all National Trust sites.
its a minster not a cathedral and its the shambles not shambles street!
Thanks Manc 🙏🏼
Calm down nancy. Don't get your panties twisted.
Awesome video but music too loud
Thanks for the feedback. We bought new wireless microphones after this. We already had a few comments saying the same thing, now we are really careful with the volume of the music before we upload 🙏🏼☺️
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It was good to see York again. I was a student here in the 1960s! To be truthful, though, I nearly stopped watching because of the soundtrack. I lost count of the number of times a caption on screen was accompanied by a sequence of sound effects (pops and so on) which were absolutely unnecessary and totally infuriating. They added nothing to the visual story you were telling except irritation.
Thanks for the feedback Mike, noted 🙏🏼😊
Loved the video but the music while talking is a bit annoying
Sorry about that! We were still finding our levels at that point 😅
It was mostly on the beginning, thanks for the reply, like I said I loved the video keep on going!
I really didn't like it, tiny city and easily explored in half a day, nothing outside the center apart from housing estates and miles from anywhere nice; quite boring once you've spent more than a day there.
I guess we’ll disagree Mike! Quaint cities often have more soul than massive overpopulated ones 😅
@@cjexplores I couldn't feel any soul in York, but we all have different taste.
That music is awful and detracts from your production.
Thank you for the very valuable feedback 🙏🏼❤️
I found it to be a very boring city Won’t be visiting again
What a shame 😢 hope you find somewhere that’s more “you”
@@cjexplores it’s ok ☺️ thanks
You'll be sadly missed!
@@dinerouk 😢
I have never heard such a noisy video. I cou;ldn't watch this.
Really?? What device were you using?
@@cjexplores a laptop witg B&O sound.
@@MrRobinThornton interesting 🤔 it sounds fine on our iPhones and MacBook Pro… sorry for that mate 🙏🏼 i can’t think of what could be causing that issue for you!
the music is so loud that you can't hear the commentary. I suspect that it's an issue with production ability, not technology. @@cjexplores
@@MrRobinThornton we’re always learning new ways to make our vids better, so thanks for letting us know 🙏🏼😊