Fish and chips and by the sea

June 15, 2011

Because we’ve got nothing better to do, we went on a 9-hour long road trip along the British East Coast (North Sea, Yorkshire and the Humber), stopping by four small towns — Whitby, Scarborough, Filey, and Bridlington — to eat, take pictures, and just get a breath of fresh (sea)air.

First stop: Whitby. You can’t say you’ve been to the UK if you’ve never tried Fish and Chips! Typically, a Briton would argue that “chips” is not “French fries”. It IS chips. Period. There’s even racism in food! Well, “chips” are technically thicker strips of French fries. They also have straw fries, the less popular one, which are thinner strips of French fries. Although this wasn’t my first Fish and Chips, I figured it was still worth taking a picture. This is me impatiently waiting for my cod and chips with mushy peas at Quayside, the top Fish and Chips shop in Yorkshire in 2008. And when our plates arrived, whoah were they massive! But gluttons that we are, we managed to finish them all. No sweat.

The main attraction in Whitby is the Whitby Abbey in ruins. An abbey, by definition, is a Catholic monastery led by an Abbot or an Abbess. Whitby, including this abbey, is said to have inspired Bram Stoker in writing Dracula.

More pictures at the port of Whitby, showing one of the two lighthouses of Whitby’s twin piers.

An exhausting walk to the top of the lighthouse, scaring ourselves to death.

And who rule the (seashore) world?? Seagulls! They’re everywhere — from Whitby to second stop: Scarborough.

At Scarborough and third stop: Filey.

Fourth and final stop: at a closed fair in Bridlington.

Lucky for us, it was not a bad day (like it always is in England). It was alright, nice and sunny, but not too warm. If you fancy the seaside, these places would be awesome to go to, especially during a proper summer. Not as lovely as the beaches back home, though.