Weekend Break TRAVEL
It was a New Year's resolution that took us to Flamborough. In the depths of winter, I make far too many, and few survive long. This one was about visiting old friends.
This visiting, we said, will be done in style and we'll take the ‘van so we can spend a few nights in their area. After all, just about everywhere in the UK must hold enough interest for a weekend, and folk who live there can give us some inside tips to places that wouldn't be on the usual tourist trail.
So, sun shining, the hour gone forward, daffodils out, ‘van washed (that was a waste, given its later mud bath!) and we were heading for Flamborough and our friends.
Flamborough? Well, if you look at a map of the Yorkshire coast, the long sweep of shore north of Hull has an obvious projection, a projection so large it requires a separate inset on the Ordnance Survey map. On that nose of land sits the village of Flamborough, effectively with sea on three sides. And Flamborough is also in the Yorkshire Wolds.
On either side the river lie
