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The North Sea and Dracula (England part III)
 Saturday, a bunch of us set off by train to go to Whitby which is on the North Sea. The train took about 1 hour and wound it's way through the North York Moors. We saw many pheasants, rabbits and sheep with their lambs in the fields.  Whitby is a lovely little port town. It was a whaling town at one time and now depends mostly on tourism to survive, although there are some great fish shops too. Whitby's mainly known as the home of Dracula and the Goth Festival. The Goth Festival is held twice a year and honors the birthplace of Dracula. It's on right now until April 25th in case anyone wants to check it out. Whitby is closely associated with Dracula because Bram Stoker who wrote the original novel spent time in the town while on holiday there during the summer of 1890. While he was there he was researching and writing a novel that would eventually become Dracula. The most important piece of information Stoker found while staying in Whitby was in a document he found in Whitby library, An Account of the Principalities of Wallacia and Moldavia by William Wilkinson. This document contained a reference to a 15th Century prince who had earned himself the nickname 'Dracula'. In a way, Whitby can be seen as Dracula's birth place. Not only did Stoker spend time in Whitby himself, he also set a significant part of Dracula in the town and used it as the place Dracula first steps ashore in England in the form of a big black dog which jumps from a ship called The Demeter which had run aground in Whitby.  North Yorkshire fashion. All the young, thin women (and some not so thin) were wearing these leggings with shorts, or not, over them.  The winding streets of old Whitby.  From the old town of Whitby, 199 steps lead up to the parish church of St. Mary, whose churchyard on Whitby's East Cliff gave Bram Stoker the inspiration to write his world famous book, Dracula   Whitby's skyline is dominated by the ruins of St. Hilda's Abbey, high on Whitby's East Cliff. Spreading below Whitby, a maze of alleyways and narrow streets run down to the busy quayside.  A glorious day on the North Sea.  Looking across the harbour toward East Cliff, you can see the view that inspired the fertile imagination of author Bram Stoker, who stayed in the Royal Hotel on the western side of Whitby while writing his famous novel.  Now for some real vampire food; Kippers!  Here are the little fishies just out of the smokehouse, ready to be sold. The guy was really grumpy but the kippers were good.  Dracula's resting place. 
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