Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
see if you can get to robin hood's bay nearby - it's beautiful
Whitby - recommendations, tips and local places to visit
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It looks lovely and we'll have a car so we'll definitely check it out.
Am currently obsessed with the Magpie Cafe's menu. Seafood Chowder for the win! I'm almost hoping for terrible weather
http://www.magpiecafe.co.uk/magpie_cafe.asp
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Very strongly seconded.
Used to go to both as a child - I don't think I've been to either for at least 15 years.
Maidmarian
Stubborn Socialist
The Magpie's great & now has a wide menu----- The Dolphin in Robin Hood's bay does good food too & there's a decent Thai place in Whitby too ---
wow that hotel looks aces
It does, doesn't it?
But look, look at the amazing cafe I found on A Good Place for a Cup of Tea and a Think (one of my favourite websites). It's not in Whitby, but it's close by in Sandside, Scarborough.
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/ateaandathink/2004/07/harbour_bar_san_1.html
It really is a vision in yellow. Fab.bu.lous.
Whitby Abbey is lovely especially after the tourists leave and you climb over the wall and have a wander around. There's also a nice walk down to the centre of of Whitby, but remember you have to walk back up.
Robin Hood's Bay is lovely to walk around early morning. Enjoy
Robin Hood's Bay is lovely to walk around early morning. Enjoy
Fuchs66
Ring a ding
Yep Magpie Cafe is good (if you dont mind standing in a queue for a while)
Being a Baylad myself I'll second this and add that I'd recommend staying in RHB and going to Whitby when you feel like it (its not far)
Mmmmm Fortune's kippers
http://www.whitbyonline.co.uk/whitby/whitby-retail/fortunes-kippers/
moose
like some cat from Japan
Marie Antoinette's on Church Street on the old side. Top Victoria Sponge.
And then the Black Horse opposite for beer. The Ghost Walks leave from outside the pub, or from the whale's jawbones on the other side of the bridge.
If it pisses down, the museum in Pannett Park is worth a mooch around - crammed full of curiosities.
This is ace, many thanks. I'm a sucker for a slice of Victoria Sponge
Thanks for all the suggestions by the way folks. Soulman - I loved your deer story!
Please keep those top Whitby tips a'comin'.
10 more sleeps
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Last time I was there I went to a small cafe type place on the lane from Flowergate down to the harbour which was decent. Not sure of the name, but it was just a small doorway (the place is on the first floor).
As well as Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes is also worth a look too.
As well as Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes is also worth a look too.
We went to Whitby on Saturday. I've been there many times before but I had fish and chips from the Magpie for the first time. They were ok but I've had better, still, having fish and chips from there is one of the tourist 'things to do' and now I've done it 
We had ours as a take away and ate them sitting under a bandstand thing with some morris dancers 
, overlooking the harbour.
There's a large double fronted bakers on Skinner Street with a cafe/tearoom upstairs. It's very old fashioned and the waitresses where little white aprons and caps. It's like going back to the 1930's but the food there is excellent.
The working smoke house is worth a visit and you can buy some kippers to take home.
Not sure about the Abbey. I went years ago and you could walk around it. On Saturday we went again but there seems to be high walls and a visitor centre to get past before you can get to it. I managed to get some good pics though with the sky looking very bright blue as a backdrop to the crumbling abbey.
Have a lovely time, even the drive there is stunning, especially if you drive up on the road from Pickering.
We had ours as a take away and ate them sitting under a bandstand thing with some morris dancers , overlooking the harbour.There's a large double fronted bakers on Skinner Street with a cafe/tearoom upstairs. It's very old fashioned and the waitresses where little white aprons and caps. It's like going back to the 1930's but the food there is excellent.
The working smoke house is worth a visit and you can buy some kippers to take home.
Not sure about the Abbey. I went years ago and you could walk around it. On Saturday we went again but there seems to be high walls and a visitor centre to get past before you can get to it. I managed to get some good pics though with the sky looking very bright blue as a backdrop to the crumbling abbey.
Have a lovely time, even the drive there is stunning, especially if you drive up on the road from Pickering.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Elizabeth Botham & Sons - established 1865.
As well as old style cakes, they now serve their own variant on Yorkshire Brack - haven't seen that since childhood visits to the WI tent at the Malton Show.
Fuchs66
Ring a ding
Oh yeah Bothams they're good too in an old fashioned good quality sort of way.
Dont forget to have a scout round the Sutcliffe gallery on Flowergate
http://www.whitby-yorkshire.co.uk/sutcliffe/sutcliffe.htm
Dont forget to have a scout round the Sutcliffe gallery on Flowergate
http://www.whitby-yorkshire.co.uk/sutcliffe/sutcliffe.htm
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
Robin Hood's Bay & Staithes - both great places.
Well, we had a great time in Whitby. It was a lot more crowded than I bargained for though. I think that would drive me mad if I lived there. The weather was changeable, but never terrible. It ranged from wild and windy (perfect for tucking into fish and chips without feeling guilty) to so warm on the last day that we were able to pootle about on the beach at Runswick in t-shirts and bare feet - a amazing thing at the tail end of October
We didn't make it to Robin Hoods Bay or Staithes I'm afraid. Not because we didn't intend to but it just didn't work out that way. We did make it to Filey (which I couldn't make out at all, some lovely buildings but no heart or soul in the place at all), Scarborough (seaside tack but in a good way), Sandside (lovely place with a great beachside cafe) and Runswick (my favourite place, built into the cliffside, with a sweeping beach and a decent pub with a roaring fire).
So, this was the view from my bedroom window in Whitby. Not bad, eh?
View of Whitby from the other side of the town (up by the whalebone arch):
Rainbow!
Whitby from the churchyard by the abbey, on a grey morning:
ETA: Bugger, why doesn't that work?
We didn't make it to Robin Hoods Bay or Staithes I'm afraid. Not because we didn't intend to but it just didn't work out that way. We did make it to Filey (which I couldn't make out at all, some lovely buildings but no heart or soul in the place at all), Scarborough (seaside tack but in a good way), Sandside (lovely place with a great beachside cafe) and Runswick (my favourite place, built into the cliffside, with a sweeping beach and a decent pub with a roaring fire).
So, this was the view from my bedroom window in Whitby. Not bad, eh?
View of Whitby from the other side of the town (up by the whalebone arch):
Rainbow!
Whitby from the churchyard by the abbey, on a grey morning:
ETA: Bugger, why doesn't that work?
kittyP
Pluviophile
2 more sleeps!!!
Yay! You do the counting things in sleep things too!
It makes things much more exciting.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Well, we had a great time in Whitby. It was a lot more crowded than I bargained for though. I think that would drive me mad if I lived there. The weather was changeable, but never terrible. It ranged from wild and windy (perfect for tucking into fish and chips without feeling guilty) to so warm on the last day that we were able to pootle about on the beach at Runswick in t-shirts and bare feet - a amazing thing at the tail end of October
We didn't make it to Robin Hoods Bay or Staithes I'm afraid. Not because we didn't intend to but it just didn't work out that way. We did make it to Filey (which I couldn't make out at all, some lovely buildings but no heart or soul in the place at all), Scarborough (seaside tack but in a good way), Sandside (lovely place with a great beachside cafe) and Runswick (my favourite place, built into the cliffside, with a sweeping beach and a decent pub with a roaring fire).
So, this was the view from my bedroom window in Whitby. Not bad, eh?
View of Whitby from the other side of the town (up by the whalebone arch):
Rainbow!
Whitby from the churchyard by the abbey, on a grey morning:
ETA: Bugger, why doesn't that work?
does that?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
How did you do that?
Well I quoted your post. I copy and pasted the links that you gave into flickr. then I went to the 'share this' function and grab html. then I copy and pasted the bit that was actually relevant* for urban's purposes.
*that bit is the section that ENDS .jpg and starts at the ''http'' before that, NOT the http nearest the beginning.
I don't know why flickr is so crap in this regard.
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