2012 - YORK & WHITBY

HEADING TO KINGS CROSS AGAIN FOR THE TRAIN TO YORK...

HERE WE ARE INSIDE THE WALLS OF YORK... IS THAT A PUB THROUGH THE ARCH?

FAR TOO EARLY TO GET INTO THE HOTEL & THEY WOULD NOT LET ME PARK MY BAG SO WHAT TO DO?

HEAD TO THE PUB, THAT'S WHAT.

TIME ENOUGH FOR A STROLL AROUND YORK BEFORE HEADING OVER THE NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS TO WHITBY FOR FISH & CHIPS.

YORK IS A BIT OF A SHAMBLES & THEY ARE QUITE PROUD OF IT....

WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY CHANGE THE NAME. PERFECT AS IT WAS...

LOTS OF FRENCH SCHOOL KIDS, THIS ONE LOOKING SUITABLY IMPRESSED. BEARS AN UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO KYLEY PLATT IN CORONATION STREET.

GUY FAWKES - WHO KNEW HE WAS FROM AROUND HERE? HUNG, DRAW - AND QUARTERED. THEY NEVER DID THINGS BY HALVES IN THOSE DAYS DID THEY?

EARLY THE NEXT MORNING, THE SHAMBLES IS LESS CROWDED.

I TAKE THE TOP DECK OF THE BUS, PASS LOTS OF RHODODENDROM BUSHES. GONE WILD & A BIT OF A PEST APPARENTLY, BUT PRETTY ALL THE SAME.

I THINK THIS IS FYLINGDALE, A BIT OF A SPOOKS PLACE. EARLY WARNING OR SOME SUCH. A BIT HUSH HUSH.

ADDENSFIELD - HEARTBEAT COUNTRY FOR THOSE FAMILIAR WITH THE TV PROGRAM.. I THINK HERRIOT MIGHT BE FROM AROUND HERE TOO.

AS ARRANGED, VALERIE HAD GOT ON THE BUS AS I PASSED THROUGH HER VILLAGE & ARE NOW IN WHITBY WHERE WE ARE GOING FOR THEIR FAMOUS FISH & CHIPS..

THAT IS VALERIE'S FINGER, POINTING OUT THE BLACK DOG ON THE BEACH. AS MENTIONED IN BRAM STOKERS DRACULA, OR NOT.

DONKEYS ON THE BEACH ...

TWO SHOTS TO SHOW VALERIE THE ZOOM ON MY CAMERA... THE ONE ABOVE IS NO ZOOM & THE ONE BELOW LOTS OF ZOOM

CAPTAIN COOK... WE WENT INTO A MUSEUM DEVOTED TO HIM...

VALERIE CHECKING THE HARBOUR...

VALERIE ONCE HAD A SHOP RIGHT HERE...

UP TO THE ABBEY NOW....

YOU MIGHT JUSY BE ABLE TO MAKE OUT THE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE TOP OF THIS BUILDING WHERE THEY ARE SMOKING HERRING INTO KIPPERS..

A SHORT BREAK FOR A HALF OF THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIAR - NOT BAD..

THIS SHOP HAD A MACHINE BLOWING BUBBLES...

AND HERE'S ROCK - DOES ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN ENGLAND MAKE ROCK?

BACK ACROSS THE MOORS, THROUGH ADDENESFIELD AGAIN BUT WITH THE OLD ANGLIA COPS CAR THIS TIME...

NICE LAWN MOWERS...

DROP VALERIE OFF - BYE - SEE YOU IN TWO YEARS TIME...

A NIGHT IN YORK BEFORE TAKING THE TRAIN NORTH...