Fountains Abbey (from google)Continuing from my last blog entry, Tanya and I have decided to go to Fountains Abbey for our second day in York. The plan was to go on a picnic with sandwiches and grapes with Jeff, his girlfriend Becky and his bestfriend, Claire. Not wanting to get lost this time, we decided to print off directions from another website and chose Jeff to be the navigator.
Aerial View (from google) Fountains Abbey is Britain's largest monastic ruin to date and it was only about an hour drive from York's city center. It was founded by Benedictine monks in the 1100's and over the years, the abbey and its over 500 acres of land were preserved and passed down to different patrons and generations, growing in beauty and charm as they added more gardens and more buildings. At present, the estate is Yorkshire's first World Heritage Site with the dramatic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian Abbey, a beautiful ornamental Georgian Water Garden, a Medieval deer park and finally, an Elizabethan mansion.
the water garden When we finally got there, I couldn't help but be amazed at the beauty and elegance that was Fountains Abbey. The ruins, the park, the marble statues, the white swans on the water gardens. Everything was just perfect. I promised myself though that if anybody were to visit me here, I would definitely bring them to York and show them Fountains Abbey. With the weather turning gray and misty, my photos did not turn out the way I wanted them to and so they do not do the place justice and for this, I apologize. Some of the images are from flickr and google.
the water garden
walking on the wall
the York Minster
haha id, before i read that you had taken some of the images from google, i was amazed and wondered how you got the castle shot from an aerial view (i was browsing first and didn't read the caption actually said "from google"). tangs!
ReplyDeleteHahaha. Funny ka man Eff. Of course not. I don't have a helicopter to do that. Pero cool noh?
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