WHITBY, PEDIGREE, CHIPS

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I’ll take any opportunity to make Dick and Dave jealous.

There’s few better ways to spend a couple of hours in this country than jostling past slow OAPs on the cobbled streets of Whitby.

Whitby

Honestly, even outside Goth Weekend it’s busier than central York these day. Even blatant capitalism (a coffee in Spoons is £1.80 !) can’t deter the hordes.

The best way to escape is to head up the hill to the Abbey ruins, of course.

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I really must do the town properly again soon. It looked hard to beat under blue skied.

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But where are the micros ?
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Nice tiling

It’s more than a decade since we spent a week in a work colleague’s house near New Bridge, during which we didn’t have a duff pint and marvelled at the John Smiths and Black Sheep.

So I must have the Dolphin back then, surely ?

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Packed with people watching the swing bridge

How could I have resisted a pub with this cutting-edge selection ?

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All your favs

I’m always impressed when pubs get in the GBG with beers you’ve actually heard of; it’s such a novelty.

Still, how would the Pedi hold up in 25 degrees when Yorkshire minds turn to Amstel and cups of tea.

Very well indeed, thank you.

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Well, this is nice

Cool (which helps), rich and distinctive. Obviously not quite the Pedi of our Holly Bush dreams, but good enough. £4 a pint, mind.

Just add a portion of chips from Russells, which I did, and watch nothing happen.

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Of course, there’s only so long you can watch nothing happen for.

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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

22 thoughts on “WHITBY, PEDIGREE, CHIPS”

  1. Whitby! One of England’s great pub towns. I was there Saturday one and a half weeks ago. Saturdays in Whitby are crowded, and the Dolphin is among the crowdiest. I’ve never been in there at all actually. Not even the exciting offer of fish and chips have lured me in. Plenty of other really good pubs in Whitby, though.

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      1. What’s interesting is that even in the summer the town becomes very quiet at night. A lot of the people rambling around town are day trippers. And yes that top photo has me green with envy…

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      3. Dave,
        “A lot of the people rambling around town are day trippers” so a bit like us Pub Men on a Proper Day Out ? .

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  2. “Of course, there’s only so long you can watch nothing happen for.” – but when you get to 64 that can be quite a long time.
    Do you agree P P-T ?

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    1. Not me Mudge.
      I have a short attention span so sitting around doing nowt bores me rigid unless I’m sat in a Greek taverna overlooking the Aegean Sea indulging in a very long lunch with Mrs PP-T.
      Looking at that map gives me the shudders though as it reminds me of the Lyke Wake Walk I did in my 20’s.
      Trudging overnight in horizontal rain across boggy moorland.
      Sheer lunancy.
      The Three Peaks Walk was a doddle compared to that.

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      1. P P-T,
        “overlooking the Aegean Sea”. Yes, as a boy I couldn’t understand old folk looking out at the sea but that’s what I do now, or rather will do on the Cambrian Coast next week.
        I managed to avoid “trudging overnight in horizontal rain across boggy moorland” when I walked the Offas Dyke and Coast to Coast paths. You and I know that long distance paths need doing before ones knees fail.

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  3. Funnily enough those pictures remind me of Brixham and a walk I did with my lads a couple of summers ago from Dartmouth around the coast to there.
    Another glorious summer’s day in an old-fashioned English seaside resort.
    I love the English Riviera.
    We ended up in a great little pub The Queen’s Arms for some cracking pints.
    Couldn’t manage it now though with the knee – getting an MRI on it tonight.
    You reckon the NHS is bad ? It’s taken me three weeks to get one and that’s going private.

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    1. Dick,
      Yes, I don’t think I’ve been to Whitby since 1984, when I remember drinking Camerons in the Acorn, so I must be overdue a visit.

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      2. Yes, but we could all stay the previous night in Tim’s Angel Hotel ( or if that was closed with rodent problems I could use the Youth Hostel ).
        Maybe next April immediately before or after the York AGM.

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