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 [...]