Sightseeing

Do you like to come on a day trip?

We go for a stroll to York, the most beautiful town in the north of England (here Monkgate).

We visit the famous York Minster (just outside) which is said to be the largest Gothic Cathedral of England.

For a short drive we take the motorway to Thirsk (the latter being famous for its associations with the English country vet James Herriott!) and then we rise steeply up to Sutton Bank.

On the photograph you cannot see, how steep the road is, but campers are forbidden and on every second day you can hear in the radio that the road is closed for several hours because a lorry has broken down!

Of course we also have to visit the  „White Horse of Kilburn“

...a huge figure that resembles a horse cut into the hillside of  Sutton Bank and overlooking the village of Kilburn.

Not far we pass Rievaulx Abbey, a ruined monastery...

...And then we have a short break at Helmsley, a picturesque “sleepy” market town - except on a weekend: because the market place is the meeting point of big motorbikes from everywhere! Average age about 50 years (I mean the drivers!).

The road through the North York Moors leads us to the very attractive village...

Hutton-le-Hole

We pass Rosedale, a picturesque valey

... we drive over the moors to the East and it seems that the horizon never ends until the coast. Far away we see the town of Whitby, a fishing port on the North Eastern Yorkshire coast.

On the top of the cliffs overlooking the port is Whitby Abbey,
a windswept ruin, famous for its associations with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”!

Robin Hood’s Bay is a coastal bay between Whitby and Scarborough.

A picturesque fishing village and a very nice bay (though any association with the popular folk hero of Robin Hood remains in mistery – not only for me!)

Our sight-seeing ends at Scarborough, one of Yorkshire's most popular coastal resorts..

- and in my opinion only bearable if you visit it out of season! – But before I get a complaint from the tourist office, here another photo: