Abbey

Saturday morning and I had some time to kill before travelling the 30 miles south to where tonight's party was due to be held. The party - a silver wedding anniversary, with a couple of 70th birthdays, a 50th, 21st and 18th birthday thrown in for good measure - was the main reason for my trip into Englandshire in the first place.

So, having checked out of my B&B, it was a rather fine riversisde walk into Whitby and a wander (OK, 199 steps to be climbed) up to the Abbey. Spent a while wandering round there and taking rather a lot of photos before descending back to the town and walking back to the B&B where I had been allowed to leave my car.

Arrived at tonight's hotel in the mid-afternoon and that gave me time for some more wanderings around the green fields and country lanes near Burythorpe (see extra) before the commencement of festivities.