Guests see air ambulance rescue

Our guests Mark and Sue witnessed a rescue of a 58 year old man who had fallen into the harbour on Sunday evening. A local man who works on the local speedboat went into the harbour to help save a man who had fallen off of the quayside. His colleague called the emergency services and the air ambulance took the unfortunate man to Scarborough hospital. Sue always has her camera to hand and some of her photos are online in our images section from a previous visit earlier this year.

The report of the rescue is in the Whitby Gazette.

World Champion milkman!

Paul Mendelsohn, our milkman, teamed up with his brother Mike to win the World Quoits Championship pairs at Beamish museum. Mike also won the singles. A full report is in the Whitby Gazette.

Quoits is a traditional sport played in most of the villages around Whitby and can be a pleasant way of spending a Monday or Thursday evening watching one of the league matches at local pubs.

Quoits appears to be an easy game and the rules are quite simple but the precision with which these guys throw a 6lb ring of steel is amazing to watch.

Street Choirs Festival comes to Whitby

The "Street Choirs Festival" has come to town and, despite the weather forecast, the sun has been shining. Singers from around the UK have descended on Whitby to sing at various points around town and to compete at the Pavilion this evening. Tomorrow there will be a farewell picnic on the beach, weather permitting. We enjoyed walking around and stopping off at the various places to get some free entertainment. An interesting and new event for Whitby, but sadly the festival has a new venue each year.

http://streetchoirwhitby.org.uk/

Waiting for a kiss?

Our guests having arrived earlier than expected meant that we could go out for an afternoon walk rather than the usual evening stroll along the clifftop or into town. We walked along the old Scarborough - Whitby railway line and down into Ruswarp. We are real cheesy and always kiss as we go through a "kissing gate" so Julie was waiting for me which gave me a chance to take a photo. Even though it was lovely and sunny it was not as warm as last week which made it perfect for walking. As we came home past Pannett Park I realised that I had never taken a picture of the floral clock, ideally I should have been about 10 foot taller to get the best image, but here it is anyway.

Whitby Soul Weekender

Another music weekend in Whitby - the annual "Soul Weekender". We are full for the weekend as everyone here booked as they left last year. Much as we like soul music, our days of partying until 04:00 one day and 06:00 the next are long gone, not that they were ever there for Julie!! (She likes her sleep, beauty or otherwise)