York

 

There are also several places that offer web and other internet access. These include:

City Screen Picturehouse

13-17 coney street tucked away behind st. martin's church - look for the iconic clock, tel 0871 704 2054, (http://www.picturehouses....), printing, and wireless in the basement cafe. if you bring your own laptop, wireless is a pound otherwise you pay by the amount of time spent online.

Evil Eye Lounge

42 stonegate, tel 01904 640002, (http://www.evileyelounge.com/). just as with city screen, if you bring your own laptop wireless access is just a pound. pay at the counter just as you walk in to get that day's access code.

York Central Library

Museum street between the river and the minster. ask at the enquiry desk - you'll see plenty of locals using the computers, but the staff can arrange web access for visitors too. opens till 8pm on mondays, tuesdays and fridays.

Just like in every town and city York has its bad parts that are best avoided: areas that seem to keep appearing in newspaper reports! These are the outlying suburbs of Tang Hall, Bell Farm, and parts of Foxwood and Clifton but even these are relatively tame compared to similar areas in cities like Manchester or Leeds. Also try to avoid secluded cycle paths at night as it is not unknown but still fairly rare for robberies to take place in these parts, however this tends to be away from the main city centre.

The centre of town, however, is as civilised as everywhere else in Britain.

Take care on weekend evenings in York. Plenty of local youngsters overestimate their capacity for alcohol and the city centre can seem to be awash with lager louts, mainly over the river in the Micklegate area. If you are approached just keep on walking and they will find another victim to pester. Aim for our recommended pubs, though, and you'll find that safe socialising in the company of affable locals is still possible!

phone

York's area code for landline numbers is 01904 when dialed from within the UK or +44 1904 from outside the UK.