Thirteen: Whitby, Hinderwell and Runswick Bay (04/04/09 - 05/04/09)

Saturday morning, without any warning, they chuck a few bags on and off we go - no filling up with water, no big bags of clothes, no food to speak off - a bit minimalist for my liking. A day-trip, methinks - but where? South down the A19 and then East on A194 - aha...Whitby is my guess, and an hour or so later I'm proven right.

They park me up right next to Whitby Abbey

...I'm glad that it's a bright sunny day and there's no chance of a visit from Dracula - not that I'm scared of him...after all, he'd have a hard job getting any blood out of me.

They came back about four hours later telling tales of very good fish'n'chips, and a wonderful half-hour trip out to sea on the old Whitby Lifeboat, a truly magnificent little vessel, as you can see below.

They also went on about how great it was to get Her pledge ring back with Whitby Jet replacing the previous stone...now it matched His again and they were both looking as good as the day they bought them over 20 years ago in Greece.

We set off back North, heading towards home along the coastal route but, when we got to Hinderwell, they suprised me by pulling into the Serenity Caravan and Camping Park. Pat and Nigel, the owners, soon got us sorted with a pitch amongst other vans and chickens!

They don't want me to say too much about how wonderful the site was, how very excellent the facilities were and how relaxing a time they had there because they are worried that you might want to go there and then they will not be able to get a place next time so I'll just say DON'T STAY at this site ;-) - at least when Him'n'Her and Me want to go there.

That night they went out for mucky beer in the Brown Cow and good steak pie and roasties in the Badger Hounds before coming back and jigging (doing their jigsaw - not dancing round like idiots) and dropping off to sleep.

The following day they had brekkie al-fresco and then set off for a walk to Runswick Bay via Port Mulgrave although they didn't stop to look for fossils there. Nevertheless, they said the walk along the cliff tops was fandabbydosy and Runswick bay an absolutely charming, picturesque seaside village.

They then came back to Serenity and we all said goodbye to the chickens and set off for home. After about half an hour or so, we parked up in Saltburn-by-the Sea, a somewhat faded resort town with some lovely architecture, a water-balanced cliff-face lift (which, sadly, wasn't running today) and Andy McKeown's Organism Sculpture which they thought was rather fine. A walk around the town was followed by lunch in a nice little cafe and then back home.

I hope they remember to take their dirty laundry out this time...I'm fed up of their smelly socks (although the no-stink undies are still not stinky!!!).

See more of the photos from this trip here.