York Christmas Market

Victorian post box

The streets were packed--only 30 shopping days until Christmas!

Wreaths at the market

Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate with Brandy or Baileys

Betty's Christmas display

The Shambles

York Minster all lit up at night (it was only about 4:30 pm)

View from Starbucks

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin & pecan pies

Turkey crown, polenta cornbread stuffing & Paula Deen's green bean casserole

Christkindelmarkt

Some of my ICS colleagues at the German Christmas Market

Liverpool

Outside the Liverpool One shopping centre, with Albert Dock in the background

At the entrance to the Beatles Story museum

Abbey Road!

Sgt. Peppers!

Inside the Yellow Submarine!

Outside Albert Dock

Merseyside

Albert Dock

Penny Lane!

George Harrison's birthplace

Resident cat

St. Peter's Woolton Parish Church, where Paul & John first met at a fete where John's band was performing

Strawberry Fields!

Mendips, where John grew up

Paul's house

Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, where Paul & George went to school. (Now home to Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, co-founded by Paul)

Liver building

The Christmas lights looked much better than they did in previous years

Light Switch-On and Christkindlemarkt

Town Hall with Leeds International Film Festival poster. We went to see the new Wuthering Heights, but it was far too artsy...even darker & more violent & disturbing than the book!

Light switch-on night

Frankfurters for dinner at the Christkindlemarkt!

Drinking our hot honey mead--it's delicious!

It was opening night, so it was packed!