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I have climbed those steps, years ago ( there has to be 199 steps or they wouldn't reach the top). The fish we ate at Whitby was taken across the road from the fishing boat right into the Fish and Chip Shop, that's fresh!

You got to love British humour: Any darn fool can navigate the world sober; it takes a really good sailor to do it drunk

The Abbey was the home of St Hilda, and it is where the first words were written in English, and is was at Whitby that the dates for Easter were settled.

Stratford-Upon-Avon the birth place of Shakespeare has a Ice Cream Canal Boat. I used to visit the town often when I lived in the area.

I'm from Kent (known as the Garden of England) but I love Yorkshire. Whitby is a great little place. The steps were built because the original cobbled slope, next to it, is SO steep. There are loads of eateries across the UK that serve fish without the skin. Another town that has really fresh fish is Hastings in East Sussex which has the only beach (The Strand) launched fishing fleet in the UK. The fishermen there have their own little "shops", on the Strand, where they sell fish straight from their boats.

I visited Whitby 20 years ago and fell in love with it. The following year I came here to live, best decision I ever made!

Most seaside towns are skin on as it add extra flavour but you can get skinless if you ask for it in most places so do t worry Debbie

We visited Whitby this summer whilst staying in Robin Hoods Bay. Whitby was fabulous. Debbie would LOVE the ice cream and sweet shop in Robin Hoods Bay. All the streets are practically vertical so you would work off the additional calories 😊

The Magpie is generally considered to serve the best fish and chips in Britain and regularly wins an award for it. Every cookery programme that films in Whitby goes there to film

Whitby is like my second home and we have a bench on the pier for my dad. We go regularly and I love to sit on dad's bench and have a good old chat with him while overlooking the Abbey. The park where the museum is situated is amazing. So beautiful ❤️

Oh Whitby, many memories from childhood from day trips here. I can still smell the air and hear the sounds of Whitby from memory. Beautiful place

Ladies close to Whitby are the Lavender fields you can treat yourselves to Lavender scones and buy different Lavender products, the is also an ex German POW camp that has been turned in to an interactive museum. You can also get Haddock, Cod and Plaice but it is only Plaice or any of the flat fish that are traditionally eaten with the skin on. Enjoy, P.S. Norfolk Broads are fantastic and Llandudno also has fresh sea food.

I've climbed the 199 steps to the Abbey on the last Goth Weekend and had my fish n chips with mushy peas too, lovely it was and yeah I visited the church/graveyard too....

Lived down the coast from Whitby during my Childhood and Visited many times its a really lovely place. Unfortunately like many places during the tourist season it gets very busy. However there is also so many more places to visit on the North East Coast. Make sure you have fleece handy the wind even on a nice day can be cutting

I went to whitby for the first time in May this year. When I got to the top of the 199 steps I thought I was going to throw up! The Abbey is stunning, I could have stayed there all day, it really connects you to the past. It's a very dog friendly place, never seen so many dogs in one town, I will definitely return but you definitely need good weather x

As a disabled lady, on crutches , my lovely husband this summer helped me fake photos at the Whitby steps. One photo at the bottom, one at the top, same clothes, big smile, big thumbs up! (And a fast car ride in between, to make it seem I’d made it up myself) ! Had fun with that one!

I live on the Suffolk/ Norfolk Coast, we have lovely fresh fish and chips too, my favourite is haddock so i don't mind the skin on that, with the batter i don't even notice it, the only other ice cream boat i have seen is at Stratford upon Avon on the river, (Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon) i went about 6 years ago for a lovely day trip. Good video i haven't been to Whitby so looks a nice area to visit.

Nothing better than getting up at 6am an going to sit in the cafe on the harbour with a bacon sandwich and a mug of tea, watching the fishing boats come in with their haul!

Whitby is 30 miles away from where I live and is considered in our back yard. The North East Coast and the North Yorkshire Moors are all within spitting distance. It truly is a great place to live.

A little further north is Durham, take look at the Norman Cathedral nearly 900 year's old...

Had some lovely Holidays on the East Coast of England 🇬🇧. Visiting staines, Whitby and Scarborough, Robin Hood Bay ,

In Yorkshire we eat Haddock, one of the reasons they leave the skin on the bottom side of the fish is to stop it breaking up in the cooking because it is so fresh.

Whitby is an unbelievable place to visit, hoping to live there one day!

I live an hour from Whitby so have climbed the 199 steps many times. There are a lot of places to get fish and chips there and icecream so you should definitely visit! There's also a Harry Potter type steam train that goes from the centre of Whitby into the moors. Again, definitely worth doing. A day trip is long enough x

I live twenty minutes from Whitby so am regularly there. The ghost tours are brilliant. But nothing beats going there on a stormy night, having fish and chips and then a pub crawl

My primary school used to organise trips to places around England. Fairborne in Wales was one of them. Memorable in its own right as it was an adventure holiday that included abseiling, rock climbing, gorge walking, kayaking, cave walks to a slate mine lagoon (still, crystal clear water about 150ft deep surrounded by an amphitheatre of cliffs as high as the lagoon is deep), orienteering and horse riding. That was when we were 11. But the previous year we spent 4 days in Whitby and Scarborough. Even 35 years later, I remember it vividly. What an enchanting place.

Whitby is one of our favourite places, all the fish and chip places are good but we love the Magpie, it doesn't just do fish in batter but does a lot of other fish dishes too, it's worth queuing for! They also do gluten free. Whitby is a great place just to wander around, it has such a great atmosphere.

It's on the coastal edge of the North Yorks Moors, one of England's National Parks. I used to love going there for birding holidays, great place to see raptors but there's also a lot of woodland as well as the coast. Whitby was the place I used to base myself and go our watching, then come back in the evening and go to one of the cheaper - I was a poor student - chippies.

My family are from whitby my uncle and auntie used to run the robinhood campsite back in the day , we used to spend lots of times at whitby , Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington, now I am currently on the other side of the country in angelsey and the scenery is truely spectacular

"The Magpie" Cafe usually has long queues waiting outside for a table, this is because The Magpie has the best fish and chips in Whitby xx. There is a Ice Cream boat on the canal at Skipton in Yorkshire xx

I live nine miles from Whitby in Goathland, a small moorland village which attracts many tourists and which has been a location for a TV series and where the first train scene in the first Harry Potter film was filmed.

Check out Rye & Whitstable, Leeds castle & Dover Castle & the white cliffs of Dover. You’ll love it. I live about two miles from Leeds Castle, it’s one of the most beautiful in the country & has a lot of history & I think was actually owned by an American lady a long time ago 😘

Years ago we did the cliff top walk from Whitby to Robin Hoods Bay and stayed at a camp site on the cliffs in Whitby. It was a foggy night and the Whitby Bull (fog horn) was sounding all night so didn’t get much sleep. Ahh the joys of camping. Robin Hoods Bay is beautiful.

In the Dracula story, a ship pulls into Whitby harbour and crashes against the harbour wall. Everyone on board is dead, even the skipper who has tied himself to the ship's wheel in an effort to get the boat into port. As people look on in horror, a large, black dog (Dracula in disguise) leaps ashore, runs up the 199 steps and disappears. The steps always seem an easy climb because they have placed seats there at intervals so that you can take a rest and admire the view. I live within an easy drive of Whitby and visit often. It is a lovely, rollicking seaside town, oozing with history and very, very popular with tourists. The whole N.Yorkshire coast is wonderful and you should watch a video on Robin Hood's Bay. Jet is not found in many places around the world and the Romans coveted it when they invaded England. The jewellery shops are delightful but, even a small piece of jet, set in silver, is more expensive than you would imagine. An American friend visited me once: she was from the Mid-West and had never seen the sea. I took her to Whitby and parked up on the cliffs, next to the Abbey. Then we walked through the grounds to the church and emerged with a sweeping view of the sea. She stood there, stunned, for a long time. Later, down on a beach, she whipped off her shoes and went for a paddle in the cold North Sea. I shall never forget the look of delight on her face. Thank you for yet another enjoyable video. PS I've been to the famous Magpie which always has a huge queue. But other places are just as good. I like the skin-on fillets - the skin goes crispy when deep-fried. Whitby is an inspirational place. Lewis Carroll also wrote Alice in Wonderland here - hence the gardens in his memory. There is an ice-cream boat called the Two Hoots moored by the Millennium Bridge in York.

Best fish and chip batter whisk beer with flour till texture of thin paint ( ie covers back of spoon), heat frying oil to 180c dust cod fillets in four dip in batter - deep fry turning regularly - enjoy

I used to go to school and work in Whitby. It's an amazing little seaside town. Definitely, the best fish and chips (don't forget the scraps) definitely recommend going to visit. There's so much more to see, definitely recommend looking at Goth Weekend and SteamPunk Weekend too.

During the World War 1, Whitby was shelled by the German Navy, It was first attack on the UK, the first port to be attack was Harlepool , which north from Whitby and then Scarborough which is south from Whitby. I was born on that cost, in place called Saltburn by Sea. This Victorian town north from Whitby . The town was build for wealth mine owners and famous for it steam powered tram car, that takes up the cliff.

Natasha, so nice of you to be tall so Debbie can wear heels when you go out. So thoughtful. XXX

I really enjoyed your reactions to Whitby. Please do more reactions to UK seaside places. There are lovely places in Devon, Cornwall and Pembrokeshire like Tenby which are popular with Brits for vacations but not many Americans might be aware of them.

There is no where in UK that is more than 70 miles from the coast. Whitby is an amazing place, Goth Weekend is well worth visiting.

Thanks for posting, another good video and enjoying watching all your videos.

One of our local coastal haunts. Absolutely stunning. Spent many a year running up and down those steps and loving the fish and chips on the beach! The Goth aspect is brilliant too!!

Fish and chips every Friday has been a family thing for my 59 years and back to my granny

They barely mentioned the jet, a black stone that was made popular for jewelry by Queen Victoria when she was in mourning. It's become very rare (watch out for fakes) but is the origin of the UK expression 'Jet black' meaning totally black.

Me and my family travel to Whitby almost every year to meet family, it's fun to find all the chippie shops in the town that claim to be the best in the uk

i love the drive to Whitby from York, across the north York moors, stunning scenery.

The hand of glory as it's known is mentioned in the Harry Potter books. The coastline around whitby is glorious and they have great mushy peas to go with the fish and chips, Harry Ramsden is famous for said food

I’ve smoked my fair share of joints on that memorial bench. Beautiful part of the world, and I miss the cold ocean breeze sighing on my skin in the early morning.

Definitely have to see you when you come over here, will give you a tours of places in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Kieran

It's weird how little seafood we eat considering we're islands. A lot of the best of it ends up in Spanish and French restaurants!

In Durham City there is a great fish and chip shop, where the owner has his own trawlers to catch the fish, which is fresh every day

There's a road up to the Abbey, so you could get a taxi! That's the ship's doctor who would frequently have to amputate limbs. The patient would be given lots of rum, but that's all.

whitby is shown on official music video of simply red singing holding back the years, it is quite atmospheric

When you guys get to Scotland you should visit the ruins of Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire which inspired Stoker's description of Castle Dracula. It's not too far from Dunnottar Castle which blew you away in an earlier video of (Think of a Number) Things You Must See in Scotland.

An old college friend owns the Magpie (fish) Restaurant. As a general comment, Fish and chip shops are going through a difficult time right now, with sky rocketing energy costs and massive increases in raw materials.🐟🍟

Love whitby , my favourite seaside town on earth 🌍

Dracula in the story came ashore as a big dog and ran up to the abbey and i would say the Magpie cafe is the best fish n chips and skin on is a must it adds to the tast the stream railway is just a must .

The Magpie Cafe is the best and most popular place to get Fish and Chips and of course you can always get mushy peas/gravy/curry sauce etc. Whitby is such a beautiful brilliant place, whenever I leave to come home again I always immediately miss it. It just grabs you and you just love it straightaway

You could try looking at my home town Shakespeare’s Birthplace of Stratford upon Avon. It’s lovely on the river.

I did a walk from Bridlington to Whitby this year great things to see and do. Also she missed the Harry Potter train and Whitby gin.

I am now in my late 70's but in my younger days I often walked up and down the 199 steps. I have a relative buried in the cemetery at St Mary's. I was brought up on Whitby COD and chips and still enjoy them to this day. My favourite restaurant is 'The Star Inn The Harbour', which is right beside the harbour.

The US space shuttle Endeavour was named directly after HMS Endeavour, which is why, even though American, it has the English spelling of Endeavour.

I used to go to the Whitby Goth Weekends, they are still my favourite time of year but I can't always find the time. I used to love the challenge of climbing to the Abbey but since my MS diagnosis it's very difficult now. You can try to run into the magpie, but you will struggle with the huge line of people travelling down the street... The food is that good.

My niece is getting married at Whitby in February. She’s getting married at Sneaton Castle, which was owned by nuns but was sold 4 years ago. Whitby is such an amazing place, lots of cobbled streets to explore 😊

Whitby is a regular visit, there's some amazing pubs overlooking the harbour (Abbey Wharf and especially Duke of York). Mister Chips is a great restaurant/chippie for a visit.

Chester might be of interest to you. It was the largest walled Roman fort in Britain. The walls are still intact and you can walk around them. The city stand's on the banks of the river Dee. It also has the largest amphitheatre in the country and is just out side the city walls. I really advise you to check it out.

The furthest place from the sea in the UK is 70 miles which I suppose is 2 hours away depending on how you travel, I really like your reactions to the villages in England Ed as I live in one of the largest cities in England, I watched your video about Manchester which was a very old one, but did you know that at one time it was the third largest Port in the UK, 35 miles from the sea, now it's Media city and I'm sure you'd enjoy visiting it

199 steps? Easy. When I was a postman in London, I had a walk that was over 1,500 steps, twice a day, six days a week. 199! :-)

The amputation you saw in the boat museum would be demonstrating how dangerous life on board was. Accidents or bullet/canon wounds could shatter bones and the on board 'surgeon' would often have to amputate limbs to save the sailors' lives. No anaesthetic other than rum and a piece of wood in the mouth. Ouch!

Hi great vid as usual. The reasons for leaving the skin on the fish is that it holds the fish together, and most importantly it keeps the fish moist and stops it from drying out. The skin is so thin that unless you look for it you would not even know it was there. You should try it yourself. There is a vid by KZfaqr Da Malat that shows you how to make fish and chips, with his secret recipe for really crispy batter.

I was there yesterday !

This is my neck of the woods I'm 35 minutes drive away from whitby beautiful and historic place connected to my town of Middlesbrough because of James captain Cook.

You can get skin off haddock, or cod ( my choice). The fish you get, is caught that morning, I live 45 minutes away from Whitby at Saltburn by the sea, it’s a gorgeous little town with great fish and chips 👍😘

Hey Ladies, Love Whitby. My parents had a holiday home near to Whitby for about 5 years so spent a lot of time there. Especially eating fish and chips from paper overlooking the harbour. The best, well if seasgulls are avoided.

About the saw and hand, why do think so many pirates have peg legs and hooks for hands?! Thanks for uploading, ladies. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦👍

Interesting fact about where you sit: Ever noticed that you’re stuck in your ways when it comes to seating preferences? Do you always sit in the same chair when you enter a conference room, select the same bike each time you take a spin class, or choose the same side of the plane when pre-selecting a seat? It’s not just you: It’s environmental psychology. This behaviour is an expression of “territoriality.” Territoriality is a spatial organizing mechanism that expresses itself in surprising ways. “Usually, territoriality is thought of in terms of aggression and defence, such as when nations or gangs fight, but actually its most common purpose is to keep the peace,” says University of Victoria psychology professor Robert Gifford. “Most of the time most people claim a space and others tacitly agree to it.”

Tis Ange you being on the opposite sides was a real trip Very glad u switched to ur "normal" sides.

An abbey is a type of monastery ☺️ so Westminster Abbey was originally

Good morning ladys!

Hi ladies, all ships had a ships surgeon who looked after the crew. Limbs would be amputated with no anesthetic apart from a draft of rum and a leather strap to bite on. A hard life for sure.

As an avid Queen fan have you checked out the green Day concert 2017 in Hyde Park where the 65,000 crowd sings Bohemia rhapsody. Goose bumps . You've got to see it 👀

The skin on fish is the best part. The skin, to my mind, holds most of the flavour of the fish you're eating. Many fish restaurants or chippy's will serve fish with skin on (I don't think cod has skin on). I'm guessing if you prefer no skin, you could mention you like fish with no skin, but you'd be missing out.

Whitby is famous for the abbey, fossils, fish and chips, Whitby jet, Whitby scampi, the Whitby goth festival and a hundred other things. The fish and chips are legendary and you can get skin on or not, I prefer not. Whitby scampi is also legendary and a version is available in most uk supermarkets. It’s a beautiful place and worth a visit. In fact the whole area is with Scarborough and robins hood bay nearby.

See there is a lot more to the UK than just London. For a little island there is a lot to see here 😎😄

Mushy Pears at these restaurants are usually served in a porcelain dish on the side. Ordinary Chip shops would usually put them in a paper cup with a lid (gravy the same in some places).

My Grandparents lived in Whitby at the top of the East Cliff. Their old house fell down a few years ago. We spent most of our school summer holidays there and it was like a second home. I loved it, and still do. However, Whitby has become a victim of its own success, and it gets so packed with tourists during the summer that it is actually unpleasant to try and walk anywhere or go inside anywhere because of the dense crowds and queues to eat.

You should do a video on the origins of old sayings some of them are really interesting xx

The Magpie Cafe is the most famous restaurant in Whitby. It’s not a cafe but a seafood restaurant. Made famous by celebrity chefs that go there to eat when in Whitby. The Captain Cooks Museum is actually the school where he went to learn navigation. Behind the bench seat where Bram Stoker sat is where Lewis Carol stayed and I think wrote Alice in Wonderland. George Stevenson ( the steam engine pioneer) also stayed in Whitby a few times.

I live an hour away from Whitby and can get Whitby cod here best fish and chips is at the Magpie very popular 30 years ago I used to go to Whitby fishing most weekends

I'm a regular visiter to Whitby living only 45 minuts away. It's a wonderful place to visit and the magpie cafe is regularly voted best fish and chips. Have a look at some steampunk/goth weekends at Whitby I'm sure you would love this, thanks for your videos which I always enjoy

I’m going to Whitby next weekend for the Goth Festival. The video didn’t show a lot, if didn’t show the beautiful harbour area or where the bridge and main shops are. There is always something a bit weird and random happening whenever we go and there is a certain vibe to the place you can’t capture in a video. Parking is a nightmare though as most people have the spaces for the full day and if your not early enough you could be endlessly looking around for a spot

Having mushy peas with your fish and chips is common in whitby and most places cod is the main fish used the Quayside fish shop has won national awards for theres ive tried it myself and its the best ive tasted but the touch i liked was while waiting they had a board which told you were the fish had been caught like in islantic waters and the name of the boat that caught it.

. Fab question ive never asked why 199 steps .? Now im interested in the history of Whitby . Thank you Fish n chips lush in Northern England 🇬🇧

The endeavour museum has the recreation of a ship's surgeon performing an amputation , an authentic part of life at sea

As a Geordie I think Americans always pass by this great city. It's a very welcoming city and a party city. It has masses of history too and we had King Charles 1st here during the civil war. We have a castle hence the name, actually a keep. Only one American KZfaqr has visited. Please, please do a video on this great city.

up 199 steps is grave yard, where Dracula, used one of the graves . plus outstanding views of the harbor and old town.

Another great video. To answer yiur question, there are more than a few ice-cream parlours / vendors at each seaside location, notmto mention inland locations also!

There are various cities in East Anglia, that are over-shadowed by Cambridge, Ely and Norwich would be good cities to react to. Going further afield, Lincoln is wonderful as well.

Traditionally haddock was used in fish supper’s (what Scots call fish and chips) in Scotland and cod was traditionally used in England but with the over fishing of cod and its effect on the ecosystem, haddock has started to become more prevalent in chip shops in England too. Though generally I think it is just an additional option on the menu.