Walk to Robin Hood’s Bay
Sat outside the van having breakfasted very well on bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and fried bread. We are walking to Robin Hood’s Bay today for a spot of lunch. 10 mile round trip along the coast.
Quite a wet night but the site has dried out nicely and today looks like being a goodun. The rain “unfortunately” meant we “had” to get a taxi back from Whitby. Wouldn’t have been a particularly pleasant walk up past the Abbey and around the coastal path especially as it was getting dark.
V nice curry at Indian Moments last night. Had only been open 2 weeks and they brought us a complimentary brandy and baileys as a digestif. No idea how they thought Anne would want the Baileys and me the brandy:) She downed hers in one almost. Found a couple of good pubs in Whitby – The Endeavour and The Black Horse. Both up there on Trip Advisor and both proper pubs as opposed to the food toting tourist establishments. That’s not to say there were no tourists there. Us for example.
Reusing some of my Coast to Coast walk kit today. Didn’t bring the kecks. Wearing shorts instead. Also my Osprey laptop bag instead of the Deuter which I thought would be overkill.
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Made it to RHB at a leisurely 2mph. 2 ½ hours. Loads of people waking the other way but nobody else seemed to be heading South. Unless we started at a different time I suppose. Lunch at the Victoria Hotel at the top of the hill. Cheese sandwich somewhat overloaded with mayonnaise but good sized portions. After a stroll down to the beach and a cup of tea and ginger cake we caught a cab back to the campsite. Opted for spending more time in Whitby rather than walking all the way back.
Now chillin before having a shower and heading out again.
It’s been generally lovely weather today except for a couple of unforecast showers. Perfect camping weather really The good visitors of the Whitby Holiday Park are all sat outside their caravans enjoying their holiday. Particularly one bloke across the way who has a cast on his foot so probably not mobile enough to walk into town to see the sights.
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Walked into Whitby. Had a bit of a pub crawl including a cocktail bar where there was no room to shake a cat. Most of the other pubs were pretty much dives. We tried booking into a few restaurants but all were fully booked. Ended up at Burgsy’s which happened to be number 1 on trip advisor. Just basic home made burgers. Bottle of shiraz cost £15 and the whole bill only came to £37. Barg.
It’s now only 19.30 and we are back at the campsite. People are just starting to go out but we are back on the countdown to bed. We’ll have to stick it out for another couple of hours really.
I have a couple of decent reds in the cupboard so they may make it easier. Most of the caravanners are congregating outside their vans. Dunno if they’ve eaten. Lots of them have dogs. Seems to be a bit of a common denominator for a caravanner. A couple just walked past and suggested it might be time to stop tapping in on the laptop and think about beertime. Honestly. As if everything revolves around beer! 🙂
It’s funny how people change when they are on holiday. Someone who has turned up in a caravan leaves his home life behind and has an equal status to everyone else who has also turned up in a caravan. It’s all about the caravans and the common interest. There isn’t very much common interest between a caravanner and someone with a VW T2 bay.
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