{"id":32334,"date":"2023-06-02T05:20:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=32334"},"modified":"2023-06-02T05:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T19:20:58","slug":"whitby-england-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=32334","title":{"rendered":"Whitby, England 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 31st May 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 73 kms from Pickering to Guisborough \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited:\u00a0 Whitby \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Guisborough parking. free, N54.53400, W01.05160\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 9 days @ \u20ac105 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another cold morning in Pickering. We do the Hymer\u2019s usual services and ready for the road once again. But as the Lidl is just across the road we pop in and pick up a few essentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a relatively short 20 miles over to Whitby and we get a little drizzle on our way, the first for this year. Whitby lies at the mouth of the River Esk and ancient fishing and ship building port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a grey cold morning the moors are not inspiring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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We looked at the overnight options and there a couple of caravan parks that wanted \u00a350 a night, we didn\u2019t find that reasonable. There is very little parking close to town especially for a motorhome so we opted for the P+R, thinking we\u2019ll worry about overnight parking later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the P+R parking is free, an all day bus pass is only \u00a32.60 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having watched the bus driver negotiate the narrow streets to the station, we knew the P+R was the correct choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whitby<\/a> has been on our bucket list for years. I\u2019m a Captain Cook fan and contrary to the current WOKE thinking we believe him to be the great navigator and seaman of his time. Anyway whilst Cook was not born in Whitby he lived here for many years serving his apprenticeship and learning his trade here, before joining the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having visited the Cook Museum in Cooktown (named after you know who) in Queensland in 2021, is seems fitting to visit the James Cook Museum here in Whitby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitby dates back to 656 AD but these days its an eclectic mixture of English seaside resort with it\u2019s tat shops, amusement halls and carnies, it\u2019s also home to an extensive fishing fleet, has a tenuous link to Dracula as Bram Stoker lived here when he wrote the book. I let the photos tell the story of our day in Whitby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This place is fun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of several Dracula theme shops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whitby\u2019s famous swing bridge across the River Esk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another boatload of would be pirates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Its 11\u00b0 and there are people swimming and playing in the water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking across the Esk up to Whitby Abbey (1087) and Cholmley House (1672)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of Pubs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of food plaees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our Man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our guide book recommends the Magpie Cafe (pictured above) for lunch and co-incidentally Rick Stein our travelling companion tells us it\u2019s the best fish and chip restaurant in England. By the time we get back to the Magpie for lunch there\u2019s a queue along the footpath. We decide to give the queue 15 minutes and see how we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 minutes later we are at the head of the queue and placing our order a few minutes later. The Magpie is all fresh seafood nothing from frozen, according to the blurb. Obviously we both do variations of fish and chips although Pam goes for the grilled fish and steamed potatoes for some reason that escapes me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The food was excellent and reasonable priced, cheaper than some pub meals we\u2019ve had lately.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After lunch we set off across the swing bridge and start the hundreds of steps up the hill to the Abbey. Then wander the graveyard of St Mary\u2019s and its numerous headstones dating back in the 1700s. The church is a thousand years old and not like any other we have come across travelling through England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another view of the Abbey,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking across the church graveyard of St Mary\u2019s <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From the church we wander down as half of England seems to be struggling up the hill. Our last stop is the Cook Memorial Museum and pay the entry fee of \u00a38 pp. The museum focuses as much on his life as an indentured apprentice as his navigational achievements of later life. It\u2019s an interesting 45 minutes but not in the same league as the museum in Cooktown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view from the apprentice\u2019s window in the attic, looking across the Esk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So that was our day in Whitby, we wander back across the swing bridge to the P+R stop and make our way back to the Hymer. A local suggested a stop in Sandsend but on arrival we found it was roadside parking and continued on to Guisborough and a free park in the centre of town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 31st May 2023 Travelled: 73 kms from Pickering to Guisborough \u00a0\u00a0 Visited:\u00a0 Whitby \u00a0 Stayed: Guisborough parking. free, N54.53400, W01.05160\u00a0\u00a0 Budget: 9 days @ \u20ac105 per day Another cold morning in Pickering. We do the Hymer\u2019s usual services and ready for the road once again. But as the Lidl is just across the road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[100],"class_list":{"0":"post-32334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-english-towns","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32334"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32379,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32334\/revisions\/32379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}