When I signed up for this trip, ignorant as I was about some things (although I usually am not, a few things do get missed once in a while), I didn't know there was a song dedicated to the place. 'Scarborough Fair' By Simon & Garfunkel. Enlightened by my cousin, I listened to it and well...turns out I really like the music + the lyrics' kinda sweet too.
I had to get up extremely early today for the trip; 7:30am, well yes that’s early for me. No snickering please. Got to the coach meeting point on time and met Joo-a there. The journey was about 2 hours and 15 minutes but it seemed like ages. It’s unbelievable to think I used to travel that much amount of time back in Delhi to get to the other side of the city just to shop! So anyway we finally got there and the first thing we (me & Joo-a) needed was coffee :)
Went into the first café we could find and had an ahhhh-that-is-so-good sip of our coffee! (PS-that's just a random woman who happened to be included in my picture of the cafe wall). Then off to the beach.
Then again, this is England, so no pictures in the head of sunny blue skies and warm sands; we didn't even bring bikinis :D
Fast-forwarding to the sight-seeing part, Scarborough isn't that big a place so there wasn't much to see. We saw the old Scarborough Castle on top of the hill (which is also an English Heritage), the beach (I was happy anyway since its been such a long time since I've seen the sea) and the harbour.
Just sitting in the cafes over-looking the sea with my friend and spending time together was fun enough. She went goo-goo-gaga over the crab!! Haha!
As we were coming out of the cafe and preparing to head back to the coach at the meeting point, there was a sudden rain-storm. We tried walking back in the rain anyway and boy, we had such a laugh! First off, the umbrella given to us by the kind lady (the cafe owner) got blown away as soon as we opened it about 10 steps outside the cafe, so of course they could still see us and were ahem laughing!
At first I thought Joo-a had let go of the umbrella since she couldn't hold on anymore due to the wind but when I looked back at her, she was standing there with just the umbrella stick in hand! We couldn't stop laughing; stood there in the rain both of us and laughed our heads off for a good 10 minutes :D I guess this was one of those 'you had to be there' moments to grab the funniness of the whole picture! Although I missed a shot of the umbrella blowing away, here's what's left of it.
After we sobered up enough to walk back, we did. It was horrible trying to walk calmly in a wind blowing at about 80 mph. At one time, I couldn't stop running because I was pushed at my back by the wind and I had to run into a pole on the road to stop myself. So anyway, after a treacherous walk back (dramatic much? ¬_¬), we reached the coach and were on our way back to Sheffield; dozed off for the most part.
Conclusively, we had more fun than we'd expected and yes, laughed a lot! I'm not kidding! It's not just the umbrella part, there were a whole lot of other things we laughed about which may be too insignificant to mention here but those we found to be 'absolutely hilarious'. Till today, we still giggle silly whenever either of us utter the word 'umbrella'. Cheers!
