beside the seaside…
what the rudigers are doing in filey. stuff about our work. what the family is up to. simon’s gadgets. working our way round filey, one cafe at a time.Archive for cafes
walk to hunmanby gap
on saturday we took the in-laws for a walk to hunmanby gap. the instructions are to head south on filey beach until we see a gap in the cliff with a cafe. we didn’t realise how far it was and ended up walking over 6 miles. we were out from just after 10 in the morning and got back about 4.
the cafe was no grand affair but had amazing views of the beach.
on the way back abi tried out a new seaweed hair-do.
camping
spent a few days camping on a site overlooking robin hood’s bay. a simple but excellent site with clean facilities. the whole campsite was on a slope but this meant everyone got a great view of the bay.
we spent some time on the beach at robin hood’s bay followed by dinner in a hotel in the village.
on sunday we went to staithes (more on this later) had lunch at a cracking bistro (which is up for sale) and visited staithes gallery and bought some art (well, postcards) then went to runswick bay, which is lovely.
more photos here.
to the beach!
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so we headed off to the beach with our sunhats on, sunglasses on, sun cream on. got to the beach and it started raining.
so the ice cream at the beach became an ice cream at the cafe.
we had a lovely sunny morning driving round the wolds taking part in a car treasure hunt. we didn’t win. but we did finish the challenge with about 30 others from church at a pub in thwing. steak pie and a pint of locally brewed bitter.
the next church outing is a visit to the brewery open day. why aren’t all church outings like this?!
simon, abi and jacob’s culture day
while kath was taking part in a creative prayer workshop, the rest of us decided we’d get a shot of culture and visited the scarborough art gallery and rotunda museum.
so after a healthy mcdonald’s breakfast our first stop was scarborough art gallery. in october we bought an annual pass for the scarborough museums trust (£8 for an adult for a whole year, bargain!) which includes the art gallery, the latest exhibtion was bawden and ravilious. i’d never heard of them before, but instantly recognised their style. a local design agency have been working on the publicity for the exhibition and created some children’s resources too, so there was plenty for abi and jacob to do in a really well resourced children’s creative space.
abi and i had a go at creating a (paper) mug based on the iconic ravilious alphabet design, below is a picture of my attempt and the original. can you guess which is which?
we then popped into the rotunda museum to look at dinosaur bones and fossils followed by a cappucino at the gala cafe with the best view in scarborough.
fresh filey
our first yorkshire snowman.
abi had her second snow day, not because there was loads of snow in filey, but because there was so much outside the town the teachers couldn’t get in.
jake went to playgroup, but i guess this is because the women that work there are real yorkshire women who don’t get put off by snow (and they live round the corner).
the snow didn’t stop our first fresh expressions get together to discuss what that means for filey – fresh filey! really good to meet in a cafe in town and talk about what gets us excited about church.
