What Is there to Do in Whitley Bay?
It has the usual collection of English seaside town paraphernalia: amusement arcades, fish and chip shops, pubs, clubs, rain, a golf course, a mini-golf course, a caravan site and a one-way system. It has a beach (quite a nice one, as English beaches go) but, as there are only two days in any given year when it’s warm enough to go within half a mile of the sea and not develop hypothermia, it’s rather wasted. It also has rocks, where there are rock-pools and crabs and slimy seaweed that you can throw at people when your biology teacher drags the entire class down there to count shells (in the rain). If you’re not already wet enough, one of Whitley Bay’s more popular attractions2 is the leisure pool. The ‘leisure’ part of the name comes from the fact that it’s an odd, rounded shape, rather than a rectangle with lanes, and has a rather tame slide. The ‘pool’ part is self-explanatory. If you find splashing around too energetic, you can amuse yourself by watching half of Whitley Bay’s schoo
