Robin Hood's Bay, or RHB for acronym lovers, is a touristy fishing village in North Yorkshire in the UK, which I actually recently got to guest blog about.
Bearing in mind that we visited on the last day of September, we were extremely lucky with the weather, I had a jacket in the car but that's exactly where it stayed!
I first visited Bay I think when I was about 12 or 13, and for several years Bay was the family holiday. I even went to stay by myself when I was about 20, with the notable memory of cooking a pizza with the polystrene base still attached (I was under the influence of alcohol at the time), and then not being able to turn the gas oven off so spending all evening with the oven door open to let the heat out. In the morning I had no trouble whatsoever turning off the oven, it's very strange.
Since then we generally try to go every year, if even for only a day.
The mist was rolling off the hills opposite, which I tried to capture with various settings on my phone camera, but all I managed to do was make it brighter, so here's one of the automatically optimised pictures. Which is quite nice.
We ventured down onto the bay itself for a little while, as you can see in the photos it was really nice, with just a touch of breeze.
My dad declared that he was going to have a paddle, and by the time he realised just how cold the water actually was it was too late, he was committed!
And of course no trip to Bay would be complete without a visit to a couple of pubs for some good quality beer!
My pint of Old Peculier, absolutely delicious.
I think the only problem was that we didn't get enough time there - I'm hoping to sort out something to get a day or two in the village, RHB is possibly one of the best places in the world to relax and unwind, but to do that you need the time to do it, so I hope to be able to get perhaps a cottage for a night or two in the low season.
Do you have a favorite place that you like to return to?
For more about Bay, why not check out my dad's post about the folklore of the village :)
