Day 53 - Whitby

Saturday 25^th July 2015 – Whitby – Day 53

The day is bright with a fresh north easterly breeze and the town very busy with an influx of weekend visitors.

I spent the morning cleaning the heads (toilet) and galley, while Jack went off to the supermarket and Dave sightseeing.

I contented myself in the afternoon catching up with paperwork/computer and checking every weather forecast I could find.

Whitby Bridge

Ashore in the evening and the first stop was at the swing bridge to enquire from the operators, when the first bridge would be in the morning.

The bridge opening is guided by the tides, usually two hours before and after high water, at half an hour intervals. 

With the correct time for the morning bridge, we set off up the hill to the ‘Elinor’ pub for in a pint in very good surroundings, an all nautical theme, with many pictures of the local fishing boats.

Across the road and into the ‘Little Angel’ pub which was quiet but later on it filled up with all sorts of weird characters, time to leave, after enquiring the best place for a meal, we were directed to the ‘Granby’ pub further up the hill.

Here we were not disappointed, with a very large Yorkshire pudding filled with beef, potatoes, vegetables and thick gravy; it was lovely and great to be having good old English grub.

Back down the hill to the harbour and into the ‘Golden Lion’, another quiet pub before the visitors started arriving; we left them to it, as we wandered back to our favourite last stop in the ‘Station’ pub.

Here they had live entertainment, a singer who was not very good but he had attracted his fan club, most of which appeared to be male and limp-wristed.  We enjoyed our gin and tonics and headed back on board for midnight.

The wind had been easing off during the evening, looking forward to setting off again tomorrow for last part of the northward journey.