Lovely York and Terrible Food.

Just got back from my future homeland, York. England is just so perfect when the sun is shining and you don't have anything to do other than wander around and enjoy yourself. I'm hoping that when I pack up my life here I will find all of my old cameras so that I can start taking lots of photographs for the blog. I've got an instant and a couple of lomos somewhere....any lomo fans out there? Anyone from up North who knows where I can get films developed?

Yesterday we spent the afternoon in a beer garden in Heslington playing giant chess, which I won! Well, he won, then I won. But the main thing is: I won. It was perfect and sunny and brilliant. Nothing quite beats afternoon drinking and game-playing when the sun shines, does it?

Last night we ate at "The Go Down" - mains are about £16 and the food sounds promising so we've been meaning to go for ages and thought it would be really good. I'll warn you now: it's not.

I went for a starter of goats cheese, expecting little pieces all lightly crumbed and warm and melty. I got a huge piece that was cold, had no flavour at all and was coated in very thick, very hard breadcrumbs.

I tried to order mushroom risotto for my main (other veggie option was an omelette?!) but they couldn't do it so I had to have pea and sundried tomato. It was actually quite nice because it just tasted of cheese, but no sundried tomatoes in sight.

Boyfriend's melon and prawn starter was what it said on the tin, really - prawn mayo sandwich filler with two slices of melon. His main of fishcakes and lobster sauce was remarkably similar to my goats cheese starter: a giant fishcake caked in burnt breadcrumbs, cold in the middle, pretty tasteless, more potato than fish.

Speaking of potatoes, we were also served some surprise sides: roast potatoes (no, really), carrots, and grey peas and cabbage. The carrots were the only item that got finished.

Basically, it was a huge disappointment and not recommended, but at least we tried. Next time we'll just go to J Baker's so that I can write something nice, as that place is effing amazing. Anyway it didn't spoil the weekend, I had a brilliant time and I can't wait to move! All suggestions for places to try (or avoid) welcomed!!