Our Endeavour to Whitby

This morning's newspaper reports that a record could be broken in Britain today for the hottest day since temperatures have been recorded. It is expected that on the south coast today it will hit 39 degrees! That will break the 38.5 degrees recorded three years ago in the South-East. The front page of the Daily Mail shows people losing their jandals in the melting roads, the tar resembling a toffee like texture.



Yesterday we headed out to the popular coastal town of Whitby - anyone who's been before will know what a nice place this is. For those of you who don't know Whitby was the town that the Endeavour ship left from on it's discovery of New Zealand. My only criticism of Whitby, and you will find it a lot worse in many more British sea-side destinations, is the bombardment of tacky Amusement arcades along the waterfront! Sometimes British holiday-makers just make me cringe.



It takes about an hour drive towards the east coast from where we're staying in Brompton-on-Swale. We walked up the 199 steps to the Whitby Abbey and then had lunch in a busy fish 'n' chip restaurant in the town centre. As you can see the views from the cliff-top were quite spectacular.

Today is our last day with my Grandparents in North Yorkshire - it's been really good fun up here. We're heading back down to Sheffield this afternoon on the train.