Wonderful Whitby

We wanted to share a little info on a lesser-known English destination today. Whitby, England, is an utterly charming seaside village in North Yorkshire, and it's a favorite spot of ours. ​

Why visit Whitby? It has quaint streets lined with everything from cake shops, to retro dress shops, to stores selling the local black jet jewelry; it has magnificent views of the North Sea; and of course, it has Whitby Abbey. Climb the famed 199 steps to see the ruins of this majestic medieval monastery. 

Whitby is also where Bram Stoker was staying when he began working on Dracula. He set some of the most important scenes in his 1897 novel there, and on our January 2023 Vampires group tour, we'll see those sights for ourselves! Bonus: in the photo of the historic St. Mary's Church graveyard below, on the opposite cliff, you can see a large white hotel--that's where we'll be staying on our overnight visit to Whitby!