{"id":252,"date":"2008-08-12T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-08-17T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T08:53:26","slug":"what-to-do-on-a-wet-day-in-whitby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/what-to-do-on-a-wet-day-in-whitby\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT TO DO ON A WET DAY IN WHITBY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in the coastal town of <a title=\"Yorkshire Tourism guide to Whitby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.discoveryorkshirecoast.com\/whitby-welcome-new.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Whitby<\/a> in North Yorkshire and yes, it&#8217;s raining. Heavily. So what to do?<\/p>\n<p>Brave the rain?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-253\" title=\"_0019406\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019406.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019406-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visit the amusement arcades?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254\" title=\"_0019400\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019400.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019400-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or watch a dance?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-255\" title=\"_0019457\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019457.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019457-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I opted for the latter and went along to an afternoon tea dance at\u00c2\u00a0Whitby Pavilion to watch local retirees fox trot and tango to\u00c2\u00a0music played by Ray Kirk. \u00c2\u00a0It was a wonderful sight, which reminded me of a series of photographs I made in Arizona on the <a title=\"The Snowbirds by Simon Roberts\" href=\"www.simoncroberts.com\/site\/movie.php?which=Polyarnye_Nochi\" target=\"_blank\">Snowbirds<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in the coastal town of Whitby in North Yorkshire and yes, it&#8217;s raining. Heavily. So what to do? Brave the rain? \u00c2\u00a0 Visit the amusement arcades? \u00c2\u00a0 Or watch a dance? \u00c2\u00a0 I opted for the latter and went along to an afternoon tea dance at\u00c2\u00a0Whitby Pavilion to watch local retirees fox trot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}