Alexander & Mummy's Journal
~ Whitby & Robin Hood's Bay ~

This is a nice picture of the city with the cornfields in the foreground. The one on the right has got more of the city and less of the corn. It is very hard to see but in the picture on the right there is a dip in the land at the edge of the water. If you go along the right hand side of the dip you come to a long flat building with a small point on the left. That is Whitby Cathedral. The way you determine a town or village from a city is that a city has a Cathedral and a town or village doesn't. That is why there is a tiny 'City' in Wales that has a Cathedral smaller than most churches but it is still a City.

Mummy wanted this picture. She said it was just so much like England with the deck chairs on the beach. We found lots of things on that beach. We saw two huge Irish wolfhounds and lots of crabs and fish. We saw heaps of dried out seaweed that looked a bit like the wrapping on sushi.

This is a crab I found that was about ten centimetres across. It was dead, of course. If it was alive I couldn't have taken the photo. It was the biggest 'seashore' crab I had ever seen put him in water with the seaweed to make it look more natural.

This is the old Whitby Abbey. This is a beautiful ruin. Abis Hillda used to live in this Abbey about onethouand years ago.Abis Hillda was sent to save the area from a plague of serpents by turning them to stone and casting them down the deepest well. This is why Whitby has an emblem of three "coiled snakes". This is what people thought amonites (See Fossils) were.

All the fishing boats from around Whitby come to this dock. It has a nice long pier with a light house on the end. We did'nt go down because it was too busy.