Cayton Village CAMC

Friday: An 8am departure and a pleasant journey down the A1 saw us arrive at Wetherby services for our essential bacon buttie. Times it quite nicely, as Gregg’s were packing the butties out with plenty of bacon as it was near to last orders for them! Onwards along the A64, all running smoothly until we encountered an accident which had just occured, leaving a car stranded in the middle of the road. Breathing in, we squeezed past it and arrived at the site. Lovely friendly greeting from the wardens, paid up, no mask required, headed to the pitches. The site is divided into two sections, the lower has ‘normal’ pitches, the upper has ‘long thin’ pitches, which means park your car in-front of the ‘van. We decided on the lower taking this into account. The site had just opened today for the season, so plenty of choice! We settled on pitch 93 as it was southerly facing. We were soon set up with the heater running, as we’re still awaiting the repair on our Whale Space Heater 🙁

Saturday: Firstly, a trip to Tesco to pick up some further refrigerated goodies via click & collect. This was just up the road in Scarborough, so not far to travel. It took a while to find the click & collect point though, as it turns out to be in the underground car park, which is a little tight for big cars! Service was swift once inside though. Back at base, the wind was still very strong, so that ruled out BBQ’ing. Instead, I cleaned the ‘van and we relaxed inside.

Sunday: Still very windy, so no bacon butties! Scarborough was on the cards for today. We parked up next to the castle, after eventually finding a ticket machine that works. We took in the sights and sounds of the harbour, had some chips in leau of breakfast, obtained required thimbles and then headed back. I was planning on visiting Peasholm park and railway, but with the weather not being the best, decided to give it a miss on this occasion. Sunday lunch for tea and we were set for the night.

Monday: Weather quite sunny but still windy, so no breakfast again! Filey was the destination of choice for today. We parked up at Filey Brigg Country Park, where to our surpruse, there was a campsite. It looked fine, with some hardstanding pitches, washblock, right on the doorstep for Filey, what more could you want? We headed/descended down to the promenade and had a nice stroll along, then headed back around via the town and shops before returning to the car. Back at the site, we took a stroll around the campsite, very nice it is too. Work is still continuing with further pitches being installed next to the washblock on the lower site. The premium pitches are a nice touch as well, offering an outside bench and BBQ point along with all services on-pitch.

Tuesdy: A day to relax following all the walking over the past couple of days. The wind dropped today, along us to have a BBQ tea.

Wednesday: First rain of the holiday, but no wind, so bacon buttie time! Stayed in and relaxed for the rest of the day.

Thursday: Nice weather, but the wind is back – no BBQ’ing today :(. We headed for Robin’s Hood Bay though, never been here before, very nice, complements the rest of the East Coast’s fishing villages very nicely. Sadly no chip shops open 🙁

Friday: BBQ breakfast & BBQ tea, what more could you want. Brilliant weather, no wind, a great day to end the holiday!

Saturday: Good weather again, usual pack-up routine and had a pleasant journey back.