Overnight for two nights at a traditional coaching inn, the Golden Lion. Dinner is free. York is a city that first gained prominence under the Romans. The Jorvik Viking Centre is one of the most innovative archaeological displays in the world. On the site of an excavation that revealed a well-preserved Viking street, archaeologists have reconstructed the lane as it would have appeared over one thousand years ago.
Dinner is free.
Sites dating from the end of the ice age are quite rare in Britain, but today we will visit the caves of Creswell Crags, occupied by hunters over ten thousand years ago. We continue to Flag Fen, where residents in 1350 BC fortified their meadows from neighboring communities by constructing a long defensive wall using hundreds of thousands of timbers. We spend tonight in the 16th century Bell Inn in Stilton. Famous as the originator of Stilton Cheese, the inn is also noted for its Marston s Pedigree, Ruddles County and Tetley Bitter. We will continue to St. Albans, named for the first Christian martyr in England and the successor of the Roman city of Verulamium.