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.
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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
THE 199 STEPS TO A WHITBY TICK
Has anyone ever driven up that lane next to 199 steps in Whitby ? Hard enough for most visitors to walk it, and BRAPA had to moan about the step count last week, didn’t he, but I’d not drive up Church Lane if you paid me enough to afford a room overnight on a Saturday… Continue reading THE 199 STEPS TO A WHITBY TICK
“You went all the way to Whitby and all you brought me back was an empty chip box !”
Oh, and some pictures of micropubs. One of them is in the railway station; it took me AGES to find it. Whitby was heaving on Sunday. “The busiest place I’ve seen since St Ives at Easter or York’s Shambles” I wrote in 2016, and it still holds. Perhaps Andover will acquire such heights of popularity now BRAPA… Continue reading “You went all the way to Whitby and all you brought me back was an empty chip box !”
HOW TO SURVIVE WHITBY
We popped to Whitby, reckoning a blustery Saturday at the end of September would see us safe from both holiday hordes and the groups of Goths that always turn up in Mr Everitt’s tales. It was heaving. The busiest place I’ve seen since St Ives at Easter or York’s Shambles in Summer. Apparently there’s a themed weekend… Continue reading HOW TO SURVIVE WHITBY
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