Day 4 Sunday 13 April

 Left York this morning to travel to Whitby. Stopped off at Scarborough on the way, about 1 hr from York. Wandered around the beach and up to the castle. Quite a lovely place. We were warned by our host in York to not eat food in the open as the seagulls are very aggressive and will attack you for it! We parked at Grand Hotel and wandered around - definitely not eating!

The Towers

St Mary’s Church- they started ringing the bloody bells- so long and so loud!. Enough to wake the dead! 

Scarborough from the marina

Grand Hotel

View of Scarborough from up near Scarborough Castle


The grave of Anne Brontë, the writer and one of Brontë sisters

Scarborough Castle

Luna Park on foreshore - didn’t look as good as ours!

South end of Scarborough 

View of Scarborough from marina

View from top near Grand Hotel

Off to Robin Hood Bay about 30 mins north of Scarborough - what a gorgeous little place. Well known for its smuggling days!


Coming into the Bay Area. You walk down this really steep road to the beach area which apparently is full of fossils at low tide. It was low tide but we didn’t fossick for fossils!

The view looking back from the beach to the town. Cliffs were quite high.

Road down to bay

One of the pubs - obviously named after Robin Hood! 

Walking down to the Bay

A panoramic of the bay at low tide

Low tide at the bay

View again from the road.

Now off to Whitby - about 15 mins from Robin Hood Bay. Staying at an Air bnb built in 1860!

The place we’re staying

Another place called the Shambles

Whitney Abbey

View of Whitby from the way to the Abbey

Getting friendly with a local!

Had to take a photo of this for Jude! 

View of Abbey from St Mary’s church. Some of the graves date back to the 1700’s!

St Mary’s Church near the Abbey

The seagulls here are ginormous! 

Walking up the 199 steps to the Whitby Abbey! 

The Abbey

The Abbey house 

Sailing boat coming into harbour

The obligatory photo under the whalebones! Whitby was a big whaling town

Information on Whitby Abbey

Another view of the Abbey, it really was magnificent looking perched on this hill right on the coast!

The old town of Whitby

Whitby
Panoramic view of Whitby from the Abbey hill

Us in front of Abbey


Such history is here. There is a monument to Captain Cook as he did his training here as well as the ships he sailed were built here

Whitby is a really lovely town. Bit sorry we’re only here for the night but off to Edinburgh tomorrow! 



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  1. Pam and VernonApril 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM

    You are SOOO busy and seeing SOOOO much, very envious of all your travels but living vicariously through you, thank you!!!

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