Archive for January, 2006
Staithes – Friday
Got up about 10 and were packed up by about 11. Was a shame to be leaving as we’d had a lovely relaxing time and it really felt like home after those few short days – well, it needed cats to be truly homelike – cats to hog the fire and to sit on the [...]
Staithes – Thursday
Got up around 11 yet again but had a broken night’s sleep for the first time all holiday – was colder than normal and John, the fiend, kept stealing the duvet. John went to the post office to buy some more coal while I started making our uber breakfast: local sausages, bacon and eggs from [...]
Staithes – Wednesday
Woke up around 11 again and after a cereal breakfast, I went to the butchers to pick up supplies for a planned cooked breakfast on Thursday while John got the fire going. We stayed in nearly all day Wednesday for a lazy day – since that was the point of the holiday, to just relax [...]
Staithes – Tuesday
We woke up about 11 on Tuesday morning and had some breakfast. I forget what. Nothing exciting though. Once we were fully conscious, we went for a walk along the breakwater and watched the waves for a good long while. Then we walked back past the cottage and over the foot bridge into the village, [...]
Staithes – Monday
Left Leeds for Staithes at around lunchtime and stopped at Helmsley on the way for a drink and to pick up supplies (nice bread, petrol and wood). The last time we were in Helmsley (on the way back from a weekend in a country hotel near Scarborough) John lost £50 to a cash machine: we [...]
Staithes holiday at Northside Cottage
The original plan was to go away for Christmas – to stay in a cottage in the middle of nowhere and forget about the whole festive period – but we didn’t get around to that. So, instead, we went away for a week in January instead. I saw a small ad in the Uni’s staff [...]