Today's drive
Sept 29, 2016 18:43:25 GMT
Post by Humph on Sept 29, 2016 18:43:25 GMT
Thought I'd start a thread which might be a place to tell about places we've been, either deliberately or randomly.
Today, I needed to go from home in Cheshire over to the East coast for a couple of meetings. Long and predictably miserable early haul across the M62, up a short stretch of the M1 and then onto the A64 past York (punctuated by a short stop at the Mercedes dealer in York as described elsewhere)
My first planned stop was at Scarborough, and the business I was visiting has their premises right on the sea front, Just along from the cockle stalls. It was a bright sunny morning, a bit windy but warm enough. Scarborough suffers from British seaside resort tackiness in parts but the natural landscape surrounding it rather makes up for it and I slightly reluctantly took to it. Later, I had to go on up the coast road to Whitby, past Robin Hood's Bay and on into the town. Whitby is much nicer and very quaint in parts. I parked on the harbour, got through my meeting and then treated myself to a cone of chips as a late lunch snack. Well, you can't go to the seaside and not have chips can you?
The return journey takes you up a very long steep climb onto the moors and as I had the time and it's only about a 2 mile detour, I turned off the main road and into the village of Goathland. That's where the TV series Heartbeat was filmed and it still attracts visitors to this day to peer at Scripps garage and the Aidensfield Arms.
Rejoining the the main road over the moor you pass RAF Fylingdale on the way to Malton where you connect with the A64 back towards York.
Back on the M62 the drudgery set in again and continued all the way back until J16 of the M6 where I was able to get off the motorway system again.
The drive from York to Scarborough, up to Whitby and back to York was delightful. Sun shining, glorious scenery, light traffic, roof open and plenty of interesting corners to play on even though I was in a diesel estate car.
A long day at the wheel, but sometimes you don't mind.
Today, I needed to go from home in Cheshire over to the East coast for a couple of meetings. Long and predictably miserable early haul across the M62, up a short stretch of the M1 and then onto the A64 past York (punctuated by a short stop at the Mercedes dealer in York as described elsewhere)
My first planned stop was at Scarborough, and the business I was visiting has their premises right on the sea front, Just along from the cockle stalls. It was a bright sunny morning, a bit windy but warm enough. Scarborough suffers from British seaside resort tackiness in parts but the natural landscape surrounding it rather makes up for it and I slightly reluctantly took to it. Later, I had to go on up the coast road to Whitby, past Robin Hood's Bay and on into the town. Whitby is much nicer and very quaint in parts. I parked on the harbour, got through my meeting and then treated myself to a cone of chips as a late lunch snack. Well, you can't go to the seaside and not have chips can you?
The return journey takes you up a very long steep climb onto the moors and as I had the time and it's only about a 2 mile detour, I turned off the main road and into the village of Goathland. That's where the TV series Heartbeat was filmed and it still attracts visitors to this day to peer at Scripps garage and the Aidensfield Arms.
Rejoining the the main road over the moor you pass RAF Fylingdale on the way to Malton where you connect with the A64 back towards York.
Back on the M62 the drudgery set in again and continued all the way back until J16 of the M6 where I was able to get off the motorway system again.
The drive from York to Scarborough, up to Whitby and back to York was delightful. Sun shining, glorious scenery, light traffic, roof open and plenty of interesting corners to play on even though I was in a diesel estate car.
A long day at the wheel, but sometimes you don't mind.