HD Guide Film of the Whitby Regatta 2011
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All the people were waiting at the top of the East side cliffs to see the Read Arrows
Even in these recessional times it was they say over the weekend of the Regatta in Whitby.
This is a little HD film I took of the Whitby Regatta during the three days of the event.
We arrived on the Saturday and the people don’t like crowds obviously it’s not much fun but in short bursts it’s quite exciting to see the throngs of people milling about. The funny thing is that it’s probably the only day of the year when every single fish and chip shop down the side of the harbour has a long queue. I was stood waiting so long waiting for my fish and chips with this woman in her 60s who was covered head to toe in leathers as she was a biker even at that age, we practically became best friends, I promise spent more quality time talking with that her husband as all year !
In fact the fish shop nearly did me a favour, by the time I was served starvation and kicked in and I was losing the weight I had been trying to lose all year. Pauline and myself sat down on the benches to eat at last and enjoyed watching a West Indian gentleman with the beemy face being harassed by the seagulls even before he got his meal! Although he was to say the least rather jumpy by nature. The best part for me was a little later when he finally did receive is ever desired fish and chips which he was about to enjoy with his wife and two children when guess what, one of those dreaded seagulls planted a perfectly aimed shit straight into his meal, talk about laugh 
the poor guy ended up having to share bits from his family’s portions.
On the Sunday there was a big display of vintage cars on the Westcliffe, and I really did enjoy that even though I’m not a big car fanatic but I think what’s nice about this is you do remember
some of the older models and it gives you a sense of nostalgia and in a way in that section where all the cars are you have diverse number of vehicles and owners. When you get to speak to some of the people that restored these beloveds vehicles there is such a cross-section of people in ages all with a good story about how they came to possess their beloveds vehicle on what great lengths to have gone to bring it back to there former glory.
Later that day there was the most fantastic display by the Read Arrows and it was much better than I’d remembered from a few years ago they really were spectacular and it seemed to gone far a good 15 minutes, this has been tinged with sadness when the following Saturday on 209th August a 26-year-old pilot died while flying one of the red arrows over Bournemouth.
I would really have love to stay till 10 PM on Monday and watched a fantastic firework display but unfortunately I couldn’t stay I had to get back home as I had work commitments the following day.
I’ve never actually state in Whitby during the Folk Week, but I bet it’s very good becouse this Sunday morning the week after the Whitby Regatta I got a phone call from a rather posh sounding older lady who had seen my Endeavour Whitby Holiday Cottage on the Internet while she was staying in the town and she wanted to book it for the following year. I said to why don’t you take a stroll and have a look at the cottage in the yard and then if you want to book it ring me back, which she proceeded to do. The funny thing is that the people that are actually staying in it at the moment rang me up 10 minutes later after her phone call to tell me she’d been and they just wanted to re book the cottage for the following year before she could Then about one hour later of course she ran up and I had to inform her that because she told them her intentions they had been to the booking, she should have kept their mouths shut.
But both the posh lady and the people staying on my cottage both said a much they were enjoying the Whitby Folk Week, I must try and make it next year
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