May The Fourth Be With You!

The next day was May the fourth, Star Wars Day and my Husband's birthday. We hadn't planned anything special but the weather was good and we decided to walk the other way on the railway track, to Whitby. 

The good thing about walking old railway lines is that there are never any steep hills, so it was a gentle stroll into the town.

On the way, we passed through a Bluebell Wood and it was a very pleasant walk.

There were some good views of the town on the way plus the Church which inspired Bram Stoker to use the churchyard as a setting in his novel, Dracula and the Abbey
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We crossed a viaduct over the River Esk, which has a course of around 28 miles and is famous for it's Sea Trout and Salmon fishing.

The town was a pleasant seaside town but busy. While we were there we found a piece of Whitby Jet on the beach and Mike bought me a pendant of the famous stone, that isn't a stone, it's actually a type of fossilised wood and was made very popular by Queen Victoria.

Loved this Steam Powered vehicle that went by.

Bus home later, after a pint in a pub, where a local thought Mike was John Virgo, the Snooker player. The three mile walk back seemed a bit more than we were prepared to do.