So just as I started typing this, with a head full of seaside thoughts for our high summer edition, the post arrives with a gorgeous print of a favourite Yorkshire beach from a pal of mine. Great minds and all that. A timely gift, given I’ve still got sandy shoes from the annual beach hut trip to Saltburn on the most blustery of days. Pleasingly, the sun shone, and we admired a lot of deft handling of windbreaks on the beach from the safety of deckchairs on the prom. We scoffed cake and fish and chips, walked dogs on the dunes and ambled along the pier. Busy doing nothing is a good way to spend a day.
That’s the measure and pleasure of the seaside holiday and, in this salty seadog of an edition, we have plenty of ideas for coastal adventure. Some are off the beaten track with Sarah Banks exploring the coves and quiet paths of the coast between Scarborough and Bridlington. Some you’ll know, others might tempt you on a different route to the usual and there are some recommended stop-offs for essential hot chocolate along the way.
Within our pages we talk to people who are inspired by the coast – to paint, to write, to ramble, to cook – or create the perfect gelato. In the food section we meet Italian friends Leo Maria D’Alonza and Daniele Selvaggio. They grew up in a small town not so far from Naples, Sorrento and Amalfi. And now they find themselves making gelato in Scarborough as plenty of Yorkshire folk nip to Italy for their summer sunshine. What’s the pull?
I love their rationale; Daniele came over to Scarborough back in February 2017 to take a look at the place. Leo remembers: ‘He called me and said: “This place is beautiful, it’s like Sorrento with its two bays!”’
Who can argue with that? The rest is history and now they serve up genuine gelato to holid
