Ebor Gum

[steepholm]

It's hard to write something new about visiting so familiar and photogenic a city as York - a place where but to breathe is to find oneself in a timeslip novel. So I will just record here that I spent the weekend having a lovely time eating, drinking, talking and sightseeing with one of its newest citizens, the delightful Clementine Beauvais - who is not only a good friend and a rising academic star but a prolific author in both French and English (and still only in her mid-twenties, dammit). Otherwise, I'll let the pictures do the talking. I've put some similar pictures here before, I'm sure, so I won't go overboard.

Micklegate Bar


My old house, '85-'87


My old local




Climbing to the Minster roof. (I really like the "questing" expression of this picture.)


A Maid Cafe, Yorkshire Style


Breakfast Done Right

Comments

[topum.livejournal.com]

Great photos. I like York a lot too.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I had a great few years there, in the mid-eighties.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That captures a lot of the York that I remember - only one visit, but a pleasurable one.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I loved the city, and was sad to leave - in 1989, and then again on Sunday.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Your old local is where York Literary Festival held its poetry competition reading and yours truly got a highly commended. Lovely pub, wonky stairs, where even the sober go unsteady on their feet.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I remember those stairs well! I occasionally went to the Folk Club upstairs. No doubt it echoes still to my rendition of "The Bonny Black Hare".

[wosny.livejournal.com]

I love these photos, however do you ever feel jealous of people who achieve masses of stuff ridiculously young? (and are beautiful at the same time...)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Clementine puts in the hours and is also a very nice person, so I don't find her achievements problematic at all, though perhaps I might if I'd never managed to publish any books of my own. (The beauty is a little jealous-making, but whatcha gonna do? She carries it well.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that great photopost :-)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!