 The Cleveland Way is a national trail in the historic area of Cleveland in North Yorkshire. It runs 110 miles between Helmsley and the Brig at Filey, skirting the North York Moors National Park. There she is look. The big blue or the big brown up these parts. So welcome to the second half and the coastal half of the Cleveland Way and the bit that I was looking forward to because my stomping ground it's sort of an achievement unlocked and now we're going to the next level which is the coastal part which means I won't need a map I just know the route is pretty straightforward and there's some wonderful little towns and villages to see along the way so stay tuned. There you go there's me look medic. Roseby topping off there in the distance give some idea how far I've come. These cracks don't feel me full of confidence though because there is a lot of erosion and it looks like I'm walking at this side of that because if that goes and I don't need my weight on it especially after Yorkshire breakfast. This is all too much this look at this someone's jumped off out there I think. This is so beautiful I can't quite cope with it because obviously it's clear to me that you know I just speculating but I think someone might have taken their life here or fallen off the edge there's lots of like this stuff here like confetti and then someone I think this guy Paul has put these slates here word of encouragement which should be heeded by you know by everyone I mean it's just powerful in it because you might come here with the darkest thoughts you might get here and read these beautiful signs and then just think twice just give it that little bit more time oh my god sometimes it's just beautiful and tragic at the same time in it that's life like as humans just we're capable of such beautiful things oh sorry but let's get me in filter tips absolutely beautiful shout out whoever did that mate that's I bet there's a story I could deeper story to it as well that's even more makes it even more poignant I mean this is it life is fragile life is turbulent and life is beautiful life is chaotic just a big chaos soup in it of emotions and feelings and I'm just here in the middle of it all just a shape just this ship I don't know what I'm doing but I feel it and I love it anyway emo hikes right anyway so the weather looks perfect today anyway for hiking lovely weather not too warm but it's been a fire right on the end of this cliff and although that's bad I bet that looks sick from out let's see there's some more look seeing all them signs is really just got me thinking because obviously when you when you hiking you have a lot of time to think don't you and it's it not only breaks my heart but it fills me with like a love for other humans that because that guy's done that as a beautiful thing in it just to try and give people a second chance stopping from doing something that might regret whatever and then at the same time as humans we can be so broken and so disconnected that that is a better option and it's it's sad it saddens me it doesn't always have to be grit and determination and let's have you there's a there's a huge strength in knowing when you're weak and being able to just sit with that feeling and then and just accept it and accept that it will pass so if you're struggling with anything like that mate as a human a human oxygen breather to to another human oxygen breather on this dirty circle I send you love I send you now put love and I'm gonna leave a link leave a number below or put a number here to the Samaritans that you can call if you need to yeah don't suffer in silence is what I'm basically saying and that's how we'll leave that there that was just in a little way to get out because it felt like the right thing to say and it was emotional I got a bit in my feelings because of that but anyway visibility looks shit as per having that decent medic right let's desand these shoes no then morning it's a lovely day for it whatever it is hey finally well Robin has been today and finally tomorrow anything beats that heatwave I was on top of moose for heatwave nearly killed me there was no shelter I was like a pork scratchy and just struggling right do you have paddling pool out or out we're still doing a bit good lad hi yeah go and grab her something to drink it stays yeah I'll go no I'll go bottom and then work me way back up what's it what's that one at bottom globs crab pot lobs the pot something like that pub that's it yeah yeah oh yeah sound job have a good day see you later mate I'm never let you look have a little look around it it's not what you'd imagine from there's it's like the next few villages are really like quaint cobbles maybe white houses it's all very very cute and then you get to skinning grove and it's like this like that is red brick houses and these little I don't know these these terraces all just near the sea and it's like a council estate but next to the sea I'm all for it let's have a look these little girls kill me I'll let's say we'll take a detour and we'll go and have a little look around skinning grove pause it and read it if you're that way inclined I'll show you but I can't be bothered me I'm supposed to be doing 26 miles today I'm not gonna show you was gonna do your little tour on but I ain't got time go do so many miles my feet can't be traipsing up and down these streets just to bring it to you and there it is I saw I saw big is that skinning grove the story I heard about skinning grove is that well they used to have I don't need to say if the case now doubt it but the sewage pipe used to just run not very far offshore at all into the sea and then there's a few lads in a lousin one of them had had too many and he'd gone to the toilet and threw up and his false teeth would come out when he's thrown up in toilet and he's flushed it and then apparently one of his mates like a day or two later had found his teeth on beach and took him to a pub and bloke just chucked him back in and carried on swillin now if it's true you've got to give him salute if not salute whoever made it up lovely house on its own looking that if you interested a sharp part we got nice gravity as you view for your look look at that the cliff is coming away from the side not for the faint hearted as a poem etched in that wall look Pauline in spring I saw you your eyes shone like dew in summer we shared a love we had so true in autumn they told us there was nothing we could do and it was winter when you left Ted oh dear me RIP Pauline first section is coastal hike I'm not is an emotional roller coaster it's a roller coaster up and down these these valleys but it's also been an emotional roller coaster just seeing things like that and little tributes everywhere and it's funny in it it's like look at that coming away from cliff that gives me weird feelings it's funny in it like a lot of people will want to come to the sea to reflect and to have their final sort of thoughts and stuff I know my granddad my granddad lez wanted to be taken from the hospice to Robin Hood's Bay and he said he wants to see God's own country one last time and we'll be passing Robin Hood's Bay so I'll let you have a look at what he classes God's own he was right like he was right but yeah there is something very very dramatic about the sea there's a pull towards it there is for me having been brought up near the sea and I guess like symbolically it's just the end in it's the end it's the end of the land and what's out there we don't know so there's your tributes and and good-looking God bless I'm getting one waffling I had too much about like life and death but I've got to go with how I feel and this is bringing he's doing it to me with all these tributes and stuff what's this what is this what are you you two worn out because at sea it's something to do with the alum quarries which are these all along this coast medec now mate you're right do you mind me filming you 50th anniversary bench under your feet at over 621 miles of mine tunnels with roadways large enough for trucks machinery and hundreds of miners that work there wow underneath me so that's the mine so underneath here there's all lads like this look he don't look happy to be fair he does not look chuffed to be grafting doubt mine he wants to be out landscaping his son should we sit with him there's a little change if you want to know about the mines it's all there for you I'm gonna sit and read through all this for you but I am gonna sit and have a little read of it myself miles down underneath me roads with like trucks and lights there's probably just there's definitely a costa down there maybe even a nail house a little keep on a go down there that's sea kale proper greenery loads of it look see these cobbles from the top all the way to the bottom I laid them many moons ago in a team of a lot of people and we laid them and we had to melt the bitch the bitch means to go in between the cobbles because they laid new pipes in the middle of the road and we had to come back and let all these cobbles all the way down here bit of cake coffee people getting on it on pints already look making good time people are on it look just over there don't mean like I've lost me noggin but they're right a lot of it the part they have and this is good this is good I feel good mate look just a latte and they've got chocolate brownie it was nothing like this when I was younger it's really like taking off now full of holiday cottages and cafes and all that but back in date won't like that it's nice to see it booming with tourism especially after seaweed it's beautiful and I laid the cobbles that's always a little I'll always tell you if I ever take you to staves that I laid the cobbles in staves whoa got the seat of the left the rolling fields to the right hay bales on them yeah outdoors friend who knows me they'll know I love a good hair bail love a good hair bail don't know why it's just aesthetically pleasing to me to see him favorite shin splitter pork mulgrave originally named Rosdale but to avoid confusion with the Einstein mines of Rosdale in the middle of the North Yorkshire moors the area was renamed Port Mulgrave in honor of the local landowner the Earl of Mulgrave the harbor was constructed in 1856 initially exporting Einstein to Jarrow on Tyneside to supply Palmer's shipbuilding and iron company when the mine began to run out Sir Charles Palmer established Grinkel Einstein mine three miles to the east and in 1875 a narrow gauge railway line was built to service the mine the Einstein wagons from Grinkel were taken over bridges then through a tunnel and along another inclined tunnel on a ropeway powered by a steam engine the wagons emerged 30 foot above sea level in the cliffside they were then led onto a gantry on the East Harbor wall ready for loading the Einstein directly onto the ships Port Mulgrave was a busy port for 40 years but due to a new railway link and cheaper foreign sources of Einstein the harbor ceased to be used by 1920 and was abandoned in 1934 Grinkel mine was also abandoned and the harbour machinery sold off a scrap and the gantry accidentally destroyed by fire the West Harbor breakwater wall was deliberately destroyed by the Royal Engineers to prevent its use as part of any German invasion during World War two a bit of gay action for a little bit of struggle what I did that way but I've got it in tank because I'm the CEO of latch and locks good neck on that would not get it in a rain-naked choke I probably do a leg lock or something or just a clean I just do splits and then up a cut it like Van Damme into into sack well done mate these are roids for sure how old did you see you were I'm 79 in August 79 and still smashing it up and down these cliffs like there's no tomorrow even during the heatwave yeah Dave Dave I'm from York originally from Whitby from Manchester every month between May and September so I'm back again in August then September I've already been a March May and June and what keeps you going what keeps you hiking these long distances at this age because I want to do it you are you're either like that type of thing I get bored doing nothing that's like I am yeah I mean I used to work for chartered accountants since I retired I look after about six to seven of my neighbor's gardens I don't take anything right just just keep active and when the first thing has to get up in the morning I do about half an hour's exercises straight after I've had a shave and I wash before having a breakfast because when depending on what I do during the day don't feel like it later on there you go that's top advice get up do some exercises does stop because if you if you don't use it you'll lose it this man is a superman yeah look after yourself you too mate take care buzzing off that man buzzing what a legend what a legend he is 79 me 79 and still smashing it still getting out and doing a bit he looks well for it as well mate gone he's gone just a cloud of smoke does he even exist was it just me from the future we'll never know nice a nice view to sit and enjoy shout out Malcolm and all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover and quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long tricks over cut that man that doesn't look pretty that's how wacky colour is that if it was Tuesday I'd have been in there no doubt club Tropicana is more little duck he's coming out at undergrowth look are you you're right right right you're having a good one you've got a nice little set up here aren't you took the way anyway it's been nice catching up we are see it is more coming out you come out then get this mate it's like I'm giving a speech we are gathered here to Drake to pay homage to the duck god me there's another one look where you're coming from the TBH quicks guys how many of you at one two three four five any more any more it back as this is it now the duck I know fighting look how green it is in there two more come on you're late quick so for someone comes past and thinks I've absolutely lost plot what's he doing giving a concert to a bunch of ducks what you doing I've gathered you all here today to say that life is very short guys especially for you I think there's another two there look life is very short so please do appreciate it make the most of it you know tell each other you love each other have a little hug now I've given you the tools you need to have a good life now use it with each other and the key to it is just love and understanding all right guys no right that was right forget it see you later I can't teach them anything there's Whitby WH it be why Whitby Whitby detour some decent waves anyone in yet there's a few in I'm getting real like sentimental and nostalgic but because of all the days gone but mind you look how beautiful it is the WH it be why clean sir look at that is he getting better no it doesn't stunning I won't be able to do much there we are look there's Matt his bench Matt his bench that we helped get some money for to put towards it for Luke and Angie and his mom and dad shout out Mattie Randall resting peace went to school with him grew up with him around this when we used to live around this area again another sentimental one up to the old noggin definitely putting I can pulls away and that before getting to Whitby don't get me stuffed in you don't make a reputation to pull me can't be waltzing through dressed as lollipop lad we went support sticks so I want to be remembered look at this for a pad though this is a new pad wow imagine having that look at this the poets view can I have it give you a couple of northern months of it all open plan and that look probably just someone second home there is it's worn off a little bit my good mate gareth gasmash Gwyneth his mom resting peace Gwyneth man this is like I know quite a lot of these benches and these lads as well these two young lads who passed Ben and Jamie resting peace you lads we're not here for a very long time are we and you never know when you're gonna just get logged off which makes it even more even more beautiful look at all the benches all the memory benches that's what I was saying earlier about people wanting to just come to the edge of this edge of here and look out to see the final thing sir important to appreciate it while you're still here so we've done 19 miles today 19 miles and it's about another seven about another seven or eight to Robin's Bay and so that'll be a shift in it I'm not gonna do too much of this style of filming in Whitby because it's just everyone went to school with a player you muppet what you're doing I'm a contact cleaner guys deal with it get him launch me into Arbor and rightly so what's with all pining stuff mate I used to drinking here I used to get drunk in this in this very shelter we took shelter and we used to drink cider in here keep out the rain and now it's giving me motivational quotes that have been a theme of the day freshening up in kids paddling pool whatevs mate whatevs cut these steps mate it's a skater that would I dare do it now would I know the fearlessness of youth I've joined a hiking group this is my new squad just chilling we're gonna go and have a look at this which is the captain cook that's captain cook statue we've seen his monument aren't we a few days ago let's take you through here because it's an iconic an iconic Whitby view the whale bones I'll take you through here because it's a nice little view shame there's a gadget at the end of it look I know there's all little back streets like don't you worry about that every little snicket and alleyway there is going so we're gonna go along here of it swing bridge down round up 199 steps to the abbey and on take it back ways there we go out on tip tip front dipped into town and I've walked back up here because it's a nicer view a highlight moment watch your gully just swoop down and take it away from me that's how quickly it can all go trips out to see a whip is all lifeboat different goodbye to my Whitby lots of them look the Royal Hiller I think shipwreck fog on look I gotta show you that's fog on this one living fog on yeah come back to man lads why living a fog on fog on towers and then you'd think you'd get a bit lonely in fog on towers but then your neighbors a look lighthouse you got the lighthouse family just over just over where they see there's your lighthouse look here I hope I've got you think I've only got one more battery for this thing I didn't bring a charger for it because I just didn't think for it be fine but just plowed through them and I've only got one left so I might have to just be a bit more selective when I'm filming and stop filming dead animals and gates and stuff and just focus on important stuff well that is important to me but focus about stuff about the hike focus on hiking stuff not dead animals and gates ready come on you should be able to do this the city out of lash and locks there you are there we go look in the day for further than I thought anybody got any cold refreshments because I'm patched and the water in my bag is pretty much boiling up and I'm no battery in that but it's important I tell you that the water now in my bag if you put a teabag in it and just I carried on walking it would just brew a cup of tea hey up lads this is a nice little field you've got yourselves a nice little vista spitting feathers for a pint gonna have one we'll have one lads I'm gonna have a pint yep you coming like a black sheep going delirious wasting battery power on talking to sheep I tell you what it's lovely and cool down here nice nice on the skin stay down here we've got fresh water we've got nettles good leg workout though leg day because he's going I'll put you away cuz leg day is kicking me in three miles to go no these valleys are savage now the Cleveland way showing again why she's a spicy little number and she doesn't have pack a wallet here's one of them wallet hey Siri I need motivation energy and persistence conquer all things energy and persistence conquer all things hey Siri tell me something good you're like a human lift you really lift people up I'm a human lift I lift people up that's it that's it we're running well done Cyril putting back in pocket got to the stage where I'm talking to Siri now this three miles is long man it's like it feels like 13 miles and there's no way I can't go on past Robin's Bay my feet and calves feel like they're gonna pop but I'm a lift anyway so cheers Siri you've lifted me and I shall lift myself oh med I don't want any food I just want a pint oh looks like it might rain best get tucked in air house just for survival I didn't want to go for a pint but it's survival. Any port in a storm and all that just so happened to be alehouse so can't do me for it. They've got Boltmaker. These alehouse look at view. Tim if you tell there's a Boltmaker for my money better than landlord. Absent friends. Legit, legit one of the best points I've ever had. I just get sloshed and sleep under this. Sleep under table. Okay right, map time. Here we go. Onto the coast, up onto the tops. This is where we saw all them wonderful slate messages along here. It's where we saw that little poem on the cliff and there we have the skinning grove so went down it's very undulating down up the other side some lovely views out here the weather was just perfect absolutely spot-on for hiking. Bowlby this is where we had a look at the mines so underneath all of here is an out to sea as well is where where all the mines are for the potash. Kept going into staves for a well-earned brew and a brownie and to repeat the fact that I laid the cobbles. Not the original cobbles but when they did the road works. Thank you very much. Up out of here big climb out of here but some wonderful views great memories through Port Mulgrave which is a wonderful little place. Kept going past Hindawell down to Runeswick this is where you hit the beach here walk along the beach and then cut back in and up along past Kettle Ness. Again just wonderful views along here then we get the first views of Whitby down into Sandsend and then up up Sandsend Road I took the road there wasn't much to show it's just a road walk so I just got that out of the way then dropped into Whitby loved this bit loved it very poignant. Add me fishing chips on this little bit up here through the town not having a pint well done me pat on the back up the 199 steps and turn around bye bye Whitby on we go. Legs were starting to feel like popping at this point all along here you've got your lighthouses and your foghorns again undulating up and down quite a lot man really did put a shift in all around here by the time I got here I was just done in just Edd had started to pop a little bit we just wanted a gauge and there I got it Robin Hood's Bay got myself tucked into an earlase on here with these wonderful vistas over the bay. I had a couple of pints in the pub and I got a little bit of a chat on I hobbled to the bar and the barmaid was like we had a little bit of a joke and then she ended up putting a bell on my table as a joke and then every time I pressed the bell she would come and bring me another pint so that as a joke I was like I can't not get another pint because there's a bell involved this is just audio only but I'm in a churchyard so I have to keep it down and I'll keep here and then I'll bounce early doors with the day that I've had sorry if this is just audio this is probably a terrible part of the video could I cut some visuals over top of it probably not this is the drill as it gets the way that the day is gone the fact that I'm sleeping in a graveyard at the end of it is just so beautifully poignant just a second so you can see just so you can see look that's my setup no tent we're stealth in it let's go this is basically my setup with utmost respect for the graveyard itself I'm not on any graves or near it you know I'm tucked away out of the way and you might think oh that's that's real scary cuz you know you're in a graveyard but there's no safer place for me because lunatics are hanging out in graveyards I'm the I'm pretty much the lunatic around here see you on the morrow pitch up late leave early no bother we've left no trace open out early doors for it was just a little stealth camp here I mean no one couldn't sleep with crows kicking off anyway and when you're doing this sort of camping you don't want to be sticking around so legs feel great today feel on it I'm just gonna brush my teeth brush my teeth and then we're gonna crack it out man we're gonna try and try and get done by tea time that's poignant in it essentially I've slept in the graveyard so there's that down to my last battery on here so I'm gonna be selective we'll see what the day brings it's there it's super early so I'm hoping fingers crossed for an early finish today so you know what it's been tough mate it's been tough and I can't wait to get to the finish line tap out on it 11 it's felt like a lot longer than that 12 miles to Scarborough where am I going then oh there we go we're off and so there we are that's Robbie Nuds Bay I've come through here along here and I've just come down to get this view just to show you but my battery is running out so I'm just gonna turn it off because I need to save some for the end so next stop Scarborough I'll tell you this Scarborough has got a seagull problem there I've said it so many of them oh minimum battery both on the camera and in here in my body batteries look if you could see there's like a red red flashing no it's amber not red just yet kind of it little amber flashing light they charge your battery that's me didn't do much filming coming through fine to be doing much filming all to be honest but especially coming through Scarborough because just Google it if you want to see Scarborough it's full of seagulls mate too many seagulls got like a problem they're all over the side of buildings a shit everywhere the racket they make beautiful anyway dig deep let's go nearly vlogged nearly vlogged myself off the edge the thing is guys about this coast slide is it's really beautiful but you're logged off logged off I've not even thought about how I'm gonna get from Filey Brig to Scarborough to get my train I've not even thought about it don't if there's any buses or to get a taxi or what I'm not in the market for thinking that far ahead I'm just let's get it done just descending through these wood don't look like a lollipop lady or not just descending through these woods it's hard on legs I got a front but I'm gonna do it unless I listen up tragic happens or I like have a heart attack or spring now even if I spray some more crawl to end but let's so much tragic happens I'm gonna make it cut out I can smell it for me man dry-eyed saddle beauty we'll get him when he comes back in go yes there you go you got one medic I didn't hold out much hope for medics on this one but it's been a rich tapestry of unwell animals that have needed medics and I'd just like to report at the end of the walk we had a 100% success rate no one got left behind so that's good news as far as I can see is where I've come from man it's unbelievable unbelievable Jeff it feels like the ground is moving like someone's just moving the ground backwards I'm not good move I actually like I'm on a treadmill a grass treadmill and I don't seem to be getting any further definitely hurting man I've pushed it I have pushed it these last two days well all of it actually but well anyway don't grumble mustn't grumble mustn't grumble about how tired legs are just focus on the finish we're gonna get there the journey the finish the lot don't even know if I'm making sense anymore is this it this is it here it is kids here it is he's done it look so that's as far as it goes my battery run out I couldn't even do I couldn't even do a final thoughts and yeah so ends my Cleveland way journey and it was very much that it was a journey it had highs and lows and it took me to places I didn't expect it to one of the things I've taken from this hike is that life is very fleeting and fragile and you never know when you or someone close to you is going to get logged off so just enjoy your time here and try your best to make it a decent time for those around you a little bit of love and compassion can make the world a difference to someone and that's it man what a journey take care of yourselves and thanks for watching howl go my lady