March 2024. Hillsborough. Americans may not be aware that there are two (2) sorts of football (“soccer” if you must). There’s the game played by Manchester City, Luton Town, and whoever else is in the Premier League these days, and another version known as “grassroots football” played by everyone else without access to the miracle… Continue reading WEDNESDAY ON A TUESDAY
Month: March 2024
USE YOUR SPOONS OR LOSE IT, DRIFFIELD !
March 2024. Driffield. 2 hours home from Flamborough Head, or it would have been but for a crash just north of the M62 near Goole. Why always Goole. Thankfully I’d taken Mrs RM’s advice, there’s a first time for everything, and we’d stopped for a late lunch in Driffield. I’m sure there’s more attractions stops,… Continue reading USE YOUR SPOONS OR LOSE IT, DRIFFIELD !
TO FLAMBOROUGH HEAD
March 2024. Flamborough Head. Bridlington. A last batch of pictures from the “bracing” east coast, and a last tick for East Yorkshire at the Marine Hotel, a very typical holidaymakers small hotel. Is Flamborough a holiday destination ? Well, the Taylor family stayed just up the road at Reighton Sands in a tent (£22 for… Continue reading TO FLAMBOROUGH HEAD
SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY (SLIGHT RETURN)
March 2024. Robin Hood’s Bay. I had to end that last post abruptly as I was getting off a catamaran. We’ll rejoin the story in Robin Hood’s Bay, where Mrs RM is irritated by the fact I’ve made her walk down a steep hill, to a gorgeous pub I’ve just told her doesn’t open till… Continue reading SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY (SLIGHT RETURN)
BACON AND BEER AT ROBIN HOOD’S BAY
March 2024. Robin Hood’s Bay. An overnighter in Whitby, then a trip down the coast via breakfast bacon baps at Botham’s bakery, which is my best alliteration since yesterday. Maltmeister had insisted I have a Botham’s, so while Mrs RM fitted in a work call in the Marston’s motel I nipped out to the actual… Continue reading BACON AND BEER AT ROBIN HOOD’S BAY
BEER O’CLOCK IN WHITBY
March 2024. Whitby. Yep. You can probably see the problem already. A new GBG tick, a GBG revisit up the steps, fish and chips, a view across the water, and a gorgeous sunset. Let’s not overdo things, just the one (1) bonus pre-emptive, as tipped by all the best Pub Men. Beer O’Clock has been… Continue reading BEER O’CLOCK IN WHITBY
“CHALLENGE 25” FOR MY CAN OF SHANDY
March 2024. Whitby. The sun finally broke through the clouds over Whitby harbour just as a cry of “yeeeesss” rent the sky. I feared a Rashford goal in the derby I was ignoring, but that had come 2 hours early and this was a cheer for Haaland’s clincher. Suddenly I was warming to Whitby, and… Continue reading “CHALLENGE 25” FOR MY CAN OF SHANDY
“WHITBY FATTIES”. DO THE 199 STEPS.
March 2024. Whitby. Some more holiday snaps from the Yorkshire holiday coast, as we join the throngs on the tight little lanes leading to the Abbey. Not sure how I found an empty street at 3pm on a Sunday. The hordes were congregating outside the black jet jewellery, Whitby fatties, and ambitiously priced antiques that… Continue reading “WHITBY FATTIES”. DO THE 199 STEPS.
TOP 100 PUBS – QUIRKY DEN, WHITBY
March 2024. Whitby. Hard to believe, but Whitby is the UK’s tourism cash cow, its Monschau or Lake Como if you like; the all-year tourist attraction for Brits young and old, frail and sporty, drawn by steep steps and seagull stealing saveloy, which is my best alliteration for a while. We only had to sell… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – QUIRKY DEN, WHITBY
IN PRAISE OF THE BISHOP WILTON COMMUNITY SHOP
March 2024. Bishop Wilton. East Yorkshire. One day at home, either “home”, and I’m restless and irritable. “We need to get you out” says Mrs RM, who acquiesces to my suggestion of a night in Whitby as long as it’s not in the campervan. Sunday night in March is as cheap as Whitby gets, as… Continue reading IN PRAISE OF THE BISHOP WILTON COMMUNITY SHOP
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