Day 12: Grosmont to Robin Hood's Bay. .. the finale

We've made it to the last day!  To celebrate we're having porridge for breakfast - the full English has finally got the better of us.  This morning we need good walking fuel!

The first hour of the day it's all uphill (literally) as we climb out of the valleys back up onto the familiarity of the moors for one final time.

Oh yes, and we haven't seen the last of the bogs either - the walk has certainly saved some of the best of those for the last day!

We were so looking forward to seeing the boys in RHB, and were just debating whether they'd left home yet or not when my phone buzzed with a request from les for the postcode of his destination! Now considering I was standing in a very muddy field in the middle of nowhere you can imagine my response...

Our first snack stop of the day was littlebeck - followed by a lovely walk through woodland following the beck. Halfway through we came across a fab tea rooms set up at a place called Midge Hall next to a waterfall with fab homemade cake. Perfect timing for a break!

From there we climbed back out of the valley to be rewarded with views of Whitby and the abbey - our destination was in sight.

What follows is a "stroll" across 2 moors, described in the book as boggy, very boggy and extremely boggy in places.  Well the "boggy" came halfway up the boots, the "very boggy" was over the boots - we couldn't wait to see where the "extremely boggy" came up to.  We both had visions of us sinking into oblivion with just our walking poles pointing the way out!

Thankfully someone had thought to build a walkway over the worst bit otherwise we would have been bog snorkeling.

Finally... saying goodbye to the bogs we headed for the coast and the headland walk into RHB.

Even the rain didn't dampen our determination to finish and we eventually made it into RHB at about 6.30 to find the welcoming committee in the hotel bar of all places - though we shouldn't really have been that surprised should we?