Scarborough; Saturday, 22 October, 2011

After a quick breakfast in a coffee bar near the hotel I headed down to the sea front to catch the open-top bus along the prom. The bus doesn’t run that far, just round the headland and to the other end of the North bay, but it’s enough to get a flavour of the town.

From the North bay I had a wander through the Peasholm Park round to the aquarium and then climbed up onto the headland at Scaby Mills for some stunning views of the North bay and the North Yorkshire coast.

Wandering back down to the park I caught the North bay railway back to the parks main entrance and then hopped back on an open-top bus back to the harbour.

I brought a ticket for the next cruise out into the bay and had enough time to spare for a quick lunch before setting sail.

The cruise travelled south down almost to Filey and then headed back to the harbour.

From the harbour I walked along the South Bay to the Spa theatre and seeing there was some stand up comedy on that evening enquired as to whether they had any tickets left. With one of the last tickets of the gig secured I wandered back through town to grab an early dinner, before heading back to the theatre for an evening of comedy.