The York Vikings — Local services in Great Britain

I want to give it 4 stars for being a bit kitsch, with its horned viking helms that never actually existed, but everyone loves, but I can't bring myself to be so pedantic as I'm the first reviewer! Anyway, despite the slightly kitsch bogus viking additions, massive Thor's hammers and horned helms, the shop is rather nice to look at and I'm sure visitors will love it. Being on The Shambles means the building itself is worth a look inside regardless of what they're selling, but truth be told it is a nice looking shop and it does have some cool gifts for people to take back home. The store keeper was very nice to me as well, so it would be mean to find...

History has it that the Shambles used to be filled with butcher shops up and down the street therefore getting it's name, but no longer do the meat markets line the streets. Now the Shambles is home to many little shops, cafes, bakeries, restaurants, pubs, candy stores, and an outdoor market. My favorite part of walking the Shambles is the history and the feeling that I get while walking the streets; not only a feeling of joy, but also one of curiosity and uneasiness. Legend has it that there are many ghosts still in the Shambles left from a rather macabre past filled with plagues...

The stars are for the shop which had some very nice stuff in, however when we first went into the shop we were in there for 5 minutes looking around and NO-ONE was serving or even in the shop, we walked around and came back 10 minutes later and STILL no-one was in the shop serving, i even had a customer ask me about something as they thought i worked there, young lad came into shop about 5 minutes later with no real apology and just laughed when i said we had been in before and no-one about, terrible...