Boat trip
by Sjalen
I will never forget when me and my then boyfriend (now husband) decided to go on a boat trip as none of us had ever seen Scarborough from the water before. The boat turned out to be an old D-day veteran. It's interior had been made a pub and whilst my husband sat on deck to save our seats, I went to get the drinks. Going down was fine but as I was there I realised that no way would I be able to get up again with beverages! We had left the calm harbour area and the North Sea was rolling at its best! I had to get Keith down and I don't know how much of the trip was spent on a bench down in the dark interior of this vessel as we tried to get upstairs, hysterical with laughter. It wasn't made any easier by the fact that the stairs were narrow. Eventually, we decided that it had calmed down a little and just went for it. We must have looked hilarious to the crew down there :-)))
Moors Bus
by Britannia2
Scarborough is on the Moors Bus network - by using dedicated buses in the North Yorkshire Moors with links from Scarborough it is possible to see many places on the moors usually inaccessible by public transport.
Moors Bus is a summer only scheme operated to enable people without cars explore areas of the North Yorkshire Moors not usually served by bus.
The buses interlink reasonably well and fares are reasonably low. There are a number of buses with disabled access.
The website (which is very detailed and well thought out does need some navigating but this is a welcome innovation for the area.
Scarborough Castle
by sandysmith
On the edge of a cliff along the North Yorkshire coast, a perfect look out spot, is Scarborough Castle which dominates the town and harbour some 300 ft below. There is evidence of a roman fort being here but the first medieval castle was built by William le Gros, Count of Aumale, in the 1130's. The castle was reconstructed as a barracks in the 18th century and bombarded by German battle cruisers in 1914.
Scarborough...not the Hull story
by rickyvilla81
Yup, i've never been to Hull (sounds too much like 'Hell', I'm afraid), but when my girlfriend was in Yorkhire studying fashion for two years she was in Scarborough. Lovely town to visit, though she didn't like living there. Beautiful bays flank an old castle, and every April there is the Scarborough drama festival. Alan Aykebourne of course has residence here, in the Stephen Joseph theatre-in-the-round. You can catch his plays there regularly. Jimmy saville lives up here too, now then, now then. About ten years ago, a large chunk of the South Cliff fell into the sea, taking the Holbrook Hotel with it. There is a university, where you will find many performing arts students, but the cliff erosion has sadly not yet reached that far.
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Harbour
Beach at South Bay
In 2006
North bay scenery
