Yorkshire Nov 2015

Yorkshire Nov 2015

York for short. The city has 2000 years of history, since invasion of Romans. It has retained its historical buildings, castles, and part of fortress,  ruins - some of them though. It is said, they have retained the streets in which shoppers were selling 2000 years ago, intact.

Old styled Brick buildings all over. No high rise buildings.

No vehicular movements on crowded streets meant for shops. Very clean and neat. 

Shambles the shopping street. 

Railway station York

River Ouse that flows across the city

 Some nice old building

 A busy street corner in the town

 York Museum . It preserves the Cawood Sword and has four set of collections covering biology, geology, archaeology and bit of astronomy. I did not take many pictures inside. It has plenty of artifacts, gold jewelry pieces, ancient coins, pots and what not.


The York Museum Gardens are botanic garden in center of York. It is beside river Ouse and next to the Museum. It covers an area of Ten acres of the former grounds of St Mary's Abbey and were created in 1830. 

Below one is old observatory and Roman multangular tower. 

 St. Mary's Abbey

Garden in the area

The garden is known as Squirrels Trail. Many Grey Squirrels move around freely. Wonderful playful ones always finding some nut to munch. They are quite fearless and approach you to get some nuts or something. They come near and pick a nut from your hand.  

 It is almost end of autumn, waiting to receive snow.

Autumn in Switzerland

Autumn is almost getting over in Switzerland.
I visited Switzerland last week. Stayed at Montruex. It is located along the Geneva lake. The path along this lake is very beautiful.

I had almost half a day with me. Took a walk in woods to get deeper glimpse of autumn.

Trees start shedding and turn bright yellow and golden color.

As usual everything is neat, clean, beautiful. Disciplined people, traffic.

Fallen leaves everywhere but main roads get cleaned by dedicated crew equipped with mechanized tools and vehicles.

Only littered things are cigarette butt in around the smoking area. Most people seem to smoke.

What else ? It is the same sad feeling when I recall the state of affairs of my beloved country India.

Along the Geneva lake. 

Whole tree turns golden yellow

Road in front of the place we stayed. 

During night along the lake path

View of Lake from Mt. Pelerin. Mt. Pelerin is a short trek route at about 1080 mtr altitude. A small train takes you up hill and from there you can trek for about 5 km in Pine forest.