First Time Visiting Robin Hood's Bay (not what we expected)

I love that you're experiencing the real UK not just London

My Great Grandfather was the FIRST ever policeman in Robin Hood's Bay! He was sent there to stamp out the smuggling in around 1890. His house (The Old Police Station) appears at 1:23. A lot of the stuff he confiscated is in the Smuggling Museum at the top of the hill near the top car park. Glad you enjoyed your visit, it's certainly a quirky little place.

I'm Yorkshire born and bred and it warms my heart to hear you say how fond you are of the Yorkshire area 🥰

As a photographer i have always loved Yorkshire. It's beautiful landscapes, pretty villages and lots of history. Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, York, Brimham Rocks, Malham Cove, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Fountains Abbey and i could go on and on, a truly wonderful part of the UK.

Captain Cook was one of the most famous and important adventurers the world has known. He was apprenticed in Whitby - it was where he learned the seafaring craft over three years . He discovered Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii among many other exotic locations. He was the first person in the rest of the world to speak to a Maori, the first person to witness aborigines, or the natives of Hawaii. Among umpteen scientific discoveries the purpose of one Pacific voyage was to observe and record the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun which, when combined with observations from other places, would help to determine the distance of the Earth from the Sun.

Although his main house was in Beverley, my grandfather had a second home in Robin Hood's Bay (West Quarter). In her giddy youth in the 1940s my mother remembered having a lift up and down the hill on a motorcycle... I love Whitby too. With friends we've rented a house in the winter. When the fog rolls in it's gloriously spooky. Remember that both Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Lewis Carroll ( Alice in Wonderland) stayed on West Cliff. ( The 'Walrus and the Carpenter' is based on the beach at Whitby.) I find the Church at the top of steps more interesting than the Abbey. It is older (c.1100) and has a rarely-preserved 18th-century interior, with the old-fashioned box pews. A gem few see is Whitby Museum. They've deliberately kept it old-fashioned, and it has a wonderful collection of model ships. A great band of Jurassic rocks cross England, and form the cliffs at Whitby. They are highly fossiliferous, which is why the ammonites are a symbol of Whitby. ( It's not usually realised that many creatures became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs; ammonites did too - they are a fossil cephalopod.) A coal-like substance hardened into 'jet', which has been used as jewellery. I've also seen a dinosaur footprint nearby. But be careful round the cliffs. In the Ice Ages, great ice sheets from Scandinavia came across the North Sea; so the tops of the cliffs and the gaps in the Jurassic rocks are filled with the muck the ice sheets brought, and it's unstable!

I can't believe you have just showed me robin hood bay, my dad passed away when i was 11 and we went on a holiday (robin hood bay) but i couldn't remember where it was. I thought it was somewhere in wales, ive googled and googled for years to find out to take my kids now i know, thank you so much. I can't wait to go!

I lived York as a teen and when I was about 14 we did a week long school geography trip in that area. Every day we would get dropped off somewhere random in small groups with a packed lunch and we’d have to make our way to a specific destination completing tasks on the way. Robin Hoods Bay was one of the destinations. The weather was gorgeous all week, we had a boom box with Guns and Roses on cassette for entertainment on our hikes. Life was sweet 😄

Whitby/Yorkshire penetrates the soul.💙

Another recommendation to visit Staithes, Captain Cook was born and raised in Marton (now part of Middlesbrough), the house he was born in was dismantled brick by brick and sent to Australia and rebuilt there, which was our loss, he went to school at Great Ayton a few miles away and then started his employment in Staithes before moving to Whitby.

I have hiked the Coast to Coast twice so far from the West Coast to Robin Hoods Bay. Loved every mile of it.

Captain Cook was born in Marton. My brother lived there for a few years when his kids were young.

You seem to love North Yorkshire, you should visit Staithes, another stunning coastal inlet, and, I'm surprised you haven't travelled the North York Moors steam railway to Pickering, the heart of the national park, within that area also visit Thornton le Dale, a beautiful village! Love your tours around my county.

Carly always looks so happy which is nice.

Been to Whitby Goth weekend a few times, once to have a vampire-themed meal within the Endeavour ship moored there

Another go to place by the sea is Tenby in Wales. There's another really nice place about an hours drive from Tenby called St David's. I believe its the smallest city in the UK, probably not even 2000 people live there. Lots of beautiful scenery

That was a smugglers tunnel, it comes up underneath one of the pubs if i remember correctly

I love your Kenneth Williams t-shirt!! Come to Haworth (Yorkshire)!

I have seen lots of Americas doing the UK think, and you are by far the best. Entertaining and respectful. I have to say though as a Yorkshireman. You don't need curry sauce on good fish and chips. Just salt and vinegar, Ha Ha. Every one to their own taste.

Probably my favourite place in the world but ill never be able to visit again, i lost a leg 3 years ago, and there is no way i could expect anyine to push me around there in my wheelchair and i dont have the arm strength to do it myself any more. If im lucky enough to be able to walk again after getting myself a prosthetic leg,it could ve a possibility, but the way my other leg is, i doubt it. Its a shame, i love robin hoods bay. And whitby. Beautiful, relaxing places. Would if retired there if things had been different. Lovely video.