19, 20, 21 & 22 August 2012

North East England

Over the last 4 days we have travelled up through Hull, York, Scarborough, Whitby, Boldon (near Sunderland) and we are now in Otterburn in Northumberland.  On Friday we head up to Edinburgh for the Tattoo Yah!

A nice place to stop and have a cup of tea & scone.

Another stop this time for a long lunch of traditional Sunday roast.

 The walled city of York.

A nice place for yet another break.  

This time was coffee & tea cake at the cafe next door to the Red Lion.

It was then back to the coast and to the North Bay of Scarborough. It is school holidays in the UK so everyone has headed for the beach.

The old & the new.

South bay of Scarborough.

Maurice remembers Whitby being a quiet seaside town where James Cook trained as an apprentice.  Endeavour was a Whitby built ship.

This time it wasn't exactly quiet.  I think everyone who wasn't in Scarborough for their holiday must have been in Whitby.

James Cooks lodgings when
he was an apprentice.
Now the museum.

 We made our way to Boldon yesterday as the bike was booked in for it's 2nd service of the trip this morning.

We have done about 16,000 Kms.

The plan was to have a good look around the area on our way up to Edinburgh but unfortunately about an hour or so after leaving the service centre it started to rain heavily so we stopped at Otterburn.

The Butterchurn is our home for the next 2 nights.

 A very short walk to the Percy Arms.

 Just the place for a coffee & a port.

This next picture is on the wall across from the BB and reminded us of an incident in Pamplona, I'm sure Kev will remember it!