York...

We went to York today as a family, what a great place. Pity it was so cold. Just outside York is the Sidings, one of our favourite places. It's a restaurant that's right by the East-coast main line, four train tracks that carry all sorts of trains up and down the country. And the sidings itself is made out of converted railway carriages! Well, we can't afford to stay there, or even eat there, but we buy coffee (as we did today) and sit in the conservatory that's right by the tracks, and keep our eyes and ears open for trains. Then you can nip outside, where there's a porch leaning almost over the tracks: you can "feel the wind" of these high speed trains as they zoom past, at top speed, it being a long stretch of straight track. I go for Joni really.... ;-) ...she waves at the trains as they approach, and then waves goodbye to them, but she cuddles you tight when an intercity train speeds towards us (such a train as we were on two weeks ago, we saw the sidings from the train for the split second we were level with it!), then recovers her bravery to wave goodbye. Here's a train she wasn't scared of: The driver waved and tooted as he went by too!: