For the past few years we would normally travel over to Germany ... Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Nurnberg, Konstanz, Schwartzwald. But this year we find ourselves in ..... Whitby.
I grabbed these much-repeated nuggets from a google search ...
Whitby was the inspiration for the novel Dracula
Whitby has close connections with Captain Cook
Whitby was was once a major Whaling port
Whitby was bombed during World War 1
Whitby has the best fish and chips in the UK - according to extensive research .... so we tested out the results - delicious. 
Whitby was once a smuggling hotbed
Whitby once had a thriving jewellery industry - Whitby jet!
You can find dinosaurs in Whitby - I think we saw a few earlier today

And one not from google but from experience today ..... you can’t book a restaurant space for love nor money.