Robin Hood bay to Scarborough

 The weather was supposed to be crappy, it turned out great for the most part.

The day started with a steep downhill into the village, then a long climb through a Blachthorn forest and past Boggle Hole, a minute village of one hotel.

From here we traversed up and down most of the morning, till we got to Ravenscar ( the town that never was ), there was a huge Alum mine here( alum is a quartz product that’s used in medicine and in baking powder, all that we eat, funnily, it’s also good for fire extinguishers, dyeing clothes, and water purification and leather tanning) it’s a form of potassium sulphate.


Old Alum works


 They built a brick works, and a station, then a huge health hotel and started in a town, it all went pop and everything left in a bankruptcy, so no town. Lucky there is a tea room where we had a snack. Rain started for a minute ,which was enough to drown us. 




From Ravenscar on it was stunning cliffs as usual, we walked past an old world war 2 military bunker on the edge of one cliff, where soon after, I met a guy sitting on a bench, looking out to sea. I asked if I could join him as I was waiting on MB, turns out he put the bench ther to honor his wife Stelle, who passed in 2013, he hikes to this point weekly to spend time with her. 


If people think there are no snakes in England,?,,,,,,, well here is the second one I’ve seen today, only 18 inches, but real. 


The walk into Scarborough was long, we covered 16 miles and 39500 steps, a lot going up and down, but we walked into the town via the waterfront promenade, realized our hotel was at the TOP of the hill, so stopped for a beer , and rest the legs before heading back up the cliffs






Scarborough is the most popular summer holiday destination on the English east coast, too busy for me.

The Town was founded in 1626, around the fact there was a natural spa here, the Grand Hotel was built in 1865, and with 365 rooms, was the largest hotel in Europe at the time.



Tomorrow is our final push to the end, can’t believe it’s close to over, but I’m still praying for good weather.


Cross a farmers field 



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