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Title: Sightseeing
Post by: bahrain rover on January 22, 2017, 09:04:15 am
Hello all,

Following on from my Ex Pat thread. i am trying to compile a to do list of sightseeing for this summer. I am planning to bring my wife ( Filipino) to the Uk for our holidays. other than London where would you recommend. I already have York and Whitby for fish and chips on my list. suggestions appreciated.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: nightporter on January 22, 2017, 09:14:38 am
Yorkshire Wildlife Park if she likes animals. Polar bears and my fav, giraffes.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: turnbull for england on January 22, 2017, 09:20:49 am
if your going to Whitby Robin hoods bay is worth it and close by theres levisham a very picturesque village with a great pub. id always including a trip to Northumberland too amazing coastline Castles and scenery
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: bahrain rover on January 22, 2017, 09:51:49 am
if your going to Whitehouse, Robin hoods bay is worth it and close by theres levisham a very picturesque village with a great pub. id always including a trip to Northumberland too amazing coastline Castles and scenery

Thanks, East coast is a big plan for me. Sandsend/ Whitby /Robin hoods bay/ Scarborough etc. I have not been back for 4 years now, just looking at images on google. fantastic place we are from. I now really appreciate it. Mind you Mindanao in the Philippians my wife's home is stunning. 
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: bahrain rover on January 22, 2017, 09:54:28 am
Yorkshire Wildlife Park if she likes animals. Polar bears and my fav, giraffes.

Thanks, so the Polar Bears arrived? this was only in the planning when i left. The Wildlife park is very good. I remember they do a good Halloween night, shit myself when the guy with the chainsaw came running out of the woods.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: turnbull for england on January 22, 2017, 09:55:25 am
Sandsend is one of the wifes favourite places
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: bahrain rover on January 22, 2017, 10:15:30 am
Sandsend is one of the wifes favourite places

Yeah i used to surf at Sandsend. The castles wow yes forgot them beautiful up there around Seahouses.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: Donnywolf on January 22, 2017, 11:48:11 am
Sandsend is one of the wifes favourite places

Yeah i used to surf at Sandsend. The castles wow yes forgot them beautiful up there around Seahouses.

Last time I was at Sandsend they were engaged in a serious remodelling of the Coast Road / Beach and sea defences and it was of course looking a right mess but may have concluded now !
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: glosterred on January 22, 2017, 12:07:43 pm
If your going up towards Whitby then going a little further up the coast there is always Runswick Bay and Staithes which are worth a visit.

Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 22, 2017, 12:59:54 pm
A628 to Flouch then towards Holmfirth stop off in Holmfirth then up to Holme Moss, my fav pub is Fleece in on woodhead road Holme have lunch there then up Holmes Moss stop and top and enjoy view from Car Park then carry on down to Crowden and back over Woodhead pass,round trip from Sprotbrough is approx 70 miles.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 22, 2017, 01:01:30 pm
Re Fish and chips it can ONLY be the Magpie.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: glosterred on January 22, 2017, 01:27:48 pm
Re Fish and chips it can ONLY be the Magpie.

Nah, Quayside, just down the road is better

Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: ballysbackin on January 22, 2017, 02:50:50 pm
Yes at Quayside there is not such a big queue but watch those thieving seagulls dive bombing.. Also Robin Hood's Bay ...Hope you are still fit for that pigging hill, but at least at the top on the way back up there is a place for a cuppa, called in several times last summer and will this summer, Brilliant scenery for walking
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: drfc1951 on January 22, 2017, 04:26:40 pm
Hawoths nice and the Worth Valley railway.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 22, 2017, 04:32:09 pm
Re Fish and chips it can ONLY be the Magpie.

Nah, Quayside, just down the road is better




You can get Turbot in black butter sauce,Monkfish in batter or eat lobster in the Magpie
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: bahrain rover on January 22, 2017, 04:37:37 pm
A628 to Flouch then towards Holmfirth stop off in Holmfirth then up to Holme Moss, my fav pub is Fleece in on woodhead road Holme have lunch there then up Holmes Moss stop and top and enjoy view from Car Park then carry on down to Crowden and back over Woodhead pass,round trip from Sprotbrough is approx 70 miles.

know this area very well. Especially the Strines road from my road rallying days
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: drfc1951 on January 22, 2017, 05:37:29 pm
Re Fish and chips it can ONLY be the Magpie.

Nah, Quayside, just down the road is better




You can get Turbot in black butter sauce,Monkfish in batter or eat lobster in the Magpie


Trenchers is best
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: klindle on January 22, 2017, 06:54:47 pm
Trenchers without doubt
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: roversontheup on January 22, 2017, 08:18:16 pm
The Magpie was always my favourite but since I was introduced to The Fishermans Wife restaurant overlooking the sea I haven't returned to the Magpie.
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: RobTheRover on January 22, 2017, 11:30:22 pm
Make sure you take her to Yorkshire sculpture park too
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: ballysbackin on January 23, 2017, 09:07:22 am
Who needs a Passport when we have all this on our doorstep, and a ride on the Whitby to PIckering Steam Engines ooooh "Heartbeat and all that". AS it came close to my passport expiring last October I considered all of this in Yorkshire and nearby and decided not to renew  it. There is plenty here to enjoy and as the weather is now universal there is nothing to be gained by going abroad to sit in the rain...
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: bahrain rover on January 23, 2017, 10:14:34 am
Who needs a Passport when we have all this on our doorstep, and a ride on the Whitby to PIckering Steam Engines ooooh "Heartbeat and all that". AS it came close to my passport expiring last October I considered all of this in Yorkshire and nearby and decided not to renew  it. There is plenty here to enjoy and as the weather is now universal there is nothing to be gained by going abroad to sit in the rain...

Quite right Bally. But due to my location sitting in the rain would be total bliss, we have had maybe 2 hours max since the end of last February!!!
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: ballysbackin on January 23, 2017, 11:24:51 am
I will have a word upstairs with the Big Guy next Sunday and see if he can help   :cold: :cold: :cold: :cold: :cold:
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: i_ateallthepies on January 23, 2017, 07:20:39 pm
You planning on pegging it bally?
Title: Re: Sightseeing
Post by: ballysbackin on January 23, 2017, 09:21:45 pm
Well I hope to see the season out. Just hoping to put a word in for Bahrain.