Luck, and some nice weather is with us and we were able to sail into Whitby to stay for two nights. Whitby is a charming town but with lots of tourists. This is where Captain James Cook served his apprenticeship in his early years of becoming a seaman, and we were able to visit the museum, located where he was trained and lived. Braham Stoker, author of Count Dracula has been here. And there is also an abbey that was destroyed under King Henry the VIII but is well worth the visit. We then did a six and a half mile walk along the coastal cliffs down to Robin Hood’s Bay. It turned out to be more of a vigorous hike than either of us had thought, but Robin Hood’s Bay is a quintessentially quaint town – we called it quaintessential. The roads into town are so steep and narrow that all visitors are asked to park their cars in lots at the top of the hill, which make walking around the town so much easier. We were able to find an inexpensive tearoom for a meal before the bus ride back to Whitby. Tomorrow we head off for 30 plus hours of sailing to get past ‘The Wash’ and into Lowestoft.