j'aime york

More pictures, this time from a visit to Regent's Park and our York trip last weekend.

Regent's Park. No explanation needed on these. Just good, old-fashioned people-watching.

York! This is theYork Minster Cathedral, from the Medieval City walls.

The Shambles, a Medieval-sized street (translation: narrow, narrow, narrow).

Fountain in front of York's main art museum + classic Will.

Ghost Walk! Blurry, you know, to maintain the creep factor.

I unfortunately have no pictures of the Rievaulx Abbey ruins, but Dan caught these great moments of me and George's son, James. He is, appropriately, a blur.

We're pretending to be in prison. James described his emotion as "really sad," while I think I capture "constipated" quite nicely.

Castle Howard. Blimey gorgeous.

Ridiculous interior.

Castle Howard is famous for being I believe the first aristocratic estate house to have a dome. The dome caught on fire, like almost every roof in York it seems, so this one is a replica with a reproduction of the original art work, but it's still beautiful.

It may be because my nailpolish was the same color but this was my favorite room, the Turquoise Drawing Room.

Our tour guide, really funny, led us around the stunning Arcadia-styled grounds.

The Howard mausoleum, where every Howard family member is buried. 

The grounds are littered with 15 lead reproductions of Roman statues, as well as a bazillion perfectly-place daffodil beds.

One of the Howard men who helped build up the grounds, a duke of something I'm sure, was really into pyramids. This is the only pyramid in England, probably one too many.

Our tour ended at the Temple of the Four Winds, the Howards summer house which also features a dome and this lead Roman guy.

Inside the dome. Shiny!

To finish our visit: Jenny as Venus, at the ruins of the Temple of Venus.

Today is a supremely lazy day of Henry VIII in the park and writing a paper (which I still find it difficult to fathom that reading Shakespeare in London can be "homework," and not just my secret fantasy), so I will update on Cambridge (boys) soon. Love love.