Trip to the Seaside

Last Friday was our wedding anniversary and we woke up to sunny weather so decided, on impulse, to drive to the seaside for the day.

 Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before clouds began brooding overhead, as you can see from these sketches I did through the windscreen.

Less fortunately still, we hit such appalling traffic that it took hours to get there…

We detoured from our chosen destination of Robin Hood’s Bay (where we started our honeymoon, 18 years ago) and stopped off at Bridlington, just to get out of the car for a couple of hours and have a paddle:

We eventually made it to Robin Hood’s Bay, but it was already nearly 4.30pm. The tide was right out, so we had a rockpool-stroll along the beach, then a well deserved drink outside a pub.

Then we decided we had spent quite long enough in the car for one day, and booked a B&B. Which meant that next morning I had time to do another quick watercolour sketch, sitting outside a cafe, just before it started to rain and we had to head home again.