Travelodge Middlesbrough

Ive been looking forward to our next trip to the north east coastal town of Whitby for some time now. It also happens that this year our trip falls on the same weekend as the Whitby Goth weekend.This trip has a little extra fun involved as it happends to be a Stag weekend and bike ride rolled into one.

We have decided we would travel by train to Scarborough from the Midlands, and from there we would race by bike over to ...

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We got to the top and what did I find at the top but a Mr Whippy van Yummy .

After a big day and out with our friends Leonard and Angela we got home and had the task of trying to close our suit case and get ready for the next part of our adventure traveling up to Scotland next day we were all up early and headed down to the Littleborough train station to catch the train although we could of stayed on with Leonard and ...

One of the reasons we wanted to stay in York was so we could go to Durham and Lincoln. So after doing our laundry (more about that later) we got on the train 2 stops back up the line to the ancient cathedral town of Durham. When I went there in ’75, my mother asked me to find the Venerable Bede when I went to Durham. I was young and silly and didn’t want to admit that I didn’t know who he was. Now I do and love him so. He was around Durham before the ...

Our first trip was a good one.... I took Him & Her to Osmotherley.

They managed to get me there OK, although it seems to be taking them a little while to get used to handling me...I don't know why, I'm such a lovely RV ;-)

Before we set off, I reminded Him to go through the checklist I had given Him. He managed most of it well but, when we ...

... I just shook my head and laughed, but now I understand a little bit more of that. Little is needed really for world travel. Mostly just a bit of insanity in order to break out of the routine and comfort of home. But after that…no travel agents, no travel guides, no maps - you’ll still be ok The accidents are what makes things interesting, and the people who help you solve them are the treasured angels.

This was a trip I really wasn't looking forward to, something I had been dreading for a very long time. For the whole time we were up in Thirsk, we didn't talk about the goodbyes, we chose to ignore them! We had a lovely Sunday lunch out at the Haines Arms on the A19 and met up with Sarah, a friend of mine from school, who I hadn't seen in ...

The yacht was already in Whitby Harbour by the time we flew in on the Helicopter, after a visit to Hadrian's Wall. They had to get a pilot before entering the harbour and also had to wait until the tide was running high enough to allow us to enter. Whitby was certainly one of the smallest harbours that we entered. Steven really wanted to see Whitby since it was near the birthplace of Captain James ...

... and how to travel light for an eight week trip, plus too many nights out in the Boro which really didnt help the finance situation, but these things have to be done sometimes! Its now the friday before the monday when I leave and I'm having a trial packing session, and so far so good. Initially was convinced backpack was too small, but having invested in some, very useful if not a little indulgent, packing 'cubes' I find ...

... they wanted me, they didnt want me until may 2008 for various reasons. After initial feelings of having heart and hope ripped out as I calculated that this meant I would be 24 when joining and contracted till I was 33 (devastation due to feeling old and like I should have a career sorted by now and forgetting that can have a life during the RAF and that it is not a prison sentance!) I realised that this ...

... clear that you are entering England and leaving Scotland.

After driving for a couple of more hours through spectacular Northumberland scenery, we arrived in Durham. I had wanted to go to Durham because of the town's magnificent cathedral. But, I discovered that the town had much more to offer. Before we could get to the cathedral, necessity dictated that we stop at our bed and breakfast: the Countryview Guest House. Our room didn't have a bathroom, but it did have ...