June 23, 2013
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The Jorvik Viking Center is the location of a building over a Viking excavation site in York that began in 1976. Inside are actual artifacts from 1,000 years ago found at the site. Projections are used, as well as interactive screens, and actual people talking about and demonstrating Viking techniques of making things like a comb from a deer antler. You also get to sit in a chair connected to rails overhead and travel through elaborate dioramas of everyday life in the city of Jorvik. A speaker in the chair explains what's going on and interacts with mechanized people in the various scenes.

Then we went for a walk along the River Ouse (pronounced 'oos') and crossed the uniquely-built Millennium Bridge. The river walkway soon turned into a dirt footpath until we got to a freeway… I mean, carriageway. We turned around, found a different footpath, which took us by the York Racetrack (horses) and back to within the city walls of York.
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