18 July, 2007

Three days in York

I've been in York this week, attending a conference at the University.

It was useful, particularly for making contacts amongst my peers, but there were limited photo-opportunities*: the Heslington campus is a bus ride away from the city centre, so I couldn't wander around the mediaeval streets in the coffee breaks, and changeable weather didn't exactly render the University's utilitarian post-1960s architecture pretty. However, I deliberately reached York a couple of hours early on Monday, and found a little more time in the city centre after a drinks reception at the National Railway Museum last night, so my camera didn't have a wasted trip.

*And I'd already decided to limit myself to photos not already taken by hundreds of thousands of tourists – I was hoping to find something new rather than compete like-for-like.