Back From Whitby
Our faith in the British holiday has been restored after a lovely week away in Whitby. It only rained on one day!
The kids loved playing on the beach all day long! It's so nice to share 4 miles of beach with about a dozen other people. I never like having to confine the whole family to 4m2 when abroad.
The house we stayed in was literally a stone's throw from the beach. The village we stayed in, Sandsend, is the stuff of picture postcards. If you want a holiday in England then it's worth considering and I'd highly recommend it. If not just for the fish and chips in Whitby.
My tip for visitors to Whitby in search of a decent chip supper -- avoid being ripped off at The Magpie or Trenchers (2 pounds extra for mushy peas!?) and find Silver Street. Half way up it is a chip shop with picnic benches outside. The fish/chips are amazing, half the price and you dine alfresco to boot.
I love fish 'n' chips by the way.
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Here in the US, I always just assumed "fish n' chips" meant fish and potato chips, not fish and french fries. Learn something new every day!
Glad you had a great vacation! Now back to work. :)
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Hmm, that would make an unusual dish. Chips is one of the many many words that mean something different on either side of the Atlantic.
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I always thought the same thing too.
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The meaning depends on both the region of the US and your proprietor's age, apparently. In the Midwest where the establishment is not a chain and the proprietor is sufficiently old to be uncontaminated by the microwave / McDonald's era, Fish-N-Chips indeed means fish and "french-fries". Lot's of good pubs here will also know "chips" is "fries" and not thin sliced and deep fried "crisps".
For my money, beer-battered cod and sweet-potato fries is right over the top and leaves you feeling like you've truly eaten.
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What?! zut alors!... chips are not french fries.. I think they call them 'home fries' in
America. Big chunky chips (not crisps).
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Loved the website for the house, very clean and crisp layout. I may be lifting some ideas from that for my church website ;-)
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Glad you're all back safe-n-sound and had a really good trip. Ours was a vacation of redemption this year as well over 1st July weekend - rained out last year, all sun and fun this year. :-)
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Great photos!! What camera are you using? A DSLR, or a point and shoot?
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Thanks. Used both (Canon EOS 40D and an Ixus something other other). Mainly used the Ixus though as don't like lugging the other about.
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We spent our summer holiday in Whitby a number of years running when I was a kid.
Is the whale's jaw bone still there? I can remember counting the steps up the abbey and visiting the shop that makes the glass "lucky ducks". One of the highlights of the week was playing crazy golf on the West Cliff....funny what you remember!
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Yep, whale bones still there
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jakehowlett/Whitby2010#5499282978263342658
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