Yep! Took 7 laptops and 5 phones to manage it, but got there in the end. RIP my credit card after all this...

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You guys will have to give this Seattleite some pointers on transport to Scarborough. Finsbury Park looks easy enough on the Tube.

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London's a doddle, of course, but Scarborough's trickier. I don't have any transport tips for Scarborough, but I guess train would be best, probably about 3hrs from London. My main tip is that English summers can be much colder than the summers in Seattle or New York - Scarborough is about 54deg N - so bring suitable clothing. It's not the arctic or anything, only mentioning it as I've had visitors from Michigan in recent years, and they found our summer temperature quite cool.

Probably a good idea to look for accommodation early. I like Scarborough, but it's about a century past its heyday, and a lot of Scarborough is very 'run down', which is a euphemism for rough (I don't know if 'rough' translates to American English?), and some of the accommodation is not of a high standard.

Also a pronunciation tip: it's two syllables, and sounds a bit like 'Scarbruh'.

inspirit wrote:

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Nickers wrote:

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You guys will have to give this Seattleite some pointers on transport to Scarborough. Finsbury Park looks easy enough on the Tube.

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London's a doddle, of course, but Scarborough's trickier. I don't have any transport tips for Scarborough, but I guess train would be best, probably about 3hrs from London. My main tip is that English summers can be much colder than the summers in Seattle or New York - Scarborough is about 54deg N - so bring suitable clothing. It's not the arctic or anything, only mentioning it as I've had visitors from Michigan in recent years, and they found our summer temperature quite cool.

Probably a good idea to look for accommodation early. I like Scarborough, but it's about a century past its heyday, and a lot of Scarborough is very 'run down', which is a euphemism for rough (I don't know if 'rough' translates to American English?), and some of the accommodation is not of a high standard.

Also a pronunciation tip: it's two syllables, and sounds a bit like 'Scarbruh'.

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 Belated reply... If you want to get from London to Scarborough, you want a train up to York (~2 hours) then one to Scarborough (45 minutes). Lots of options for places to stay, but book well in advance as it gets booked up early in the summer. If you do your research you can probably get a nice independent guest house for less than the big nasty hotels.

You won't be able to get a train back to London after the gig - trains don't run late.

Thanks Eammon - sounds good. I'm a school teacher here in the US and my school may actually run through July 1 because we went on strike in September. I may miss the London show! Ugh! But Scarborough is looking like I can make it. I still haven't gotten my physical tickets for Scarborough - trying not to get nervous but I live in a high property-crime/ mail-ripoff area. I seriously do not want someone else with these tickets :)

Thanks Eamonn and Sarah. I'd forgotten Eamonn is going to Bridlington too, it'd be nice to see you again. I think we might try to make it a day out and go and see the puffins too while we are there - I've been wanting to do that for a few years now. It's only an hour from my mum's in York. I hadn't realised it was such a big venue, nearly 4,000 according to interwebs, I'd assumed it was tiny. I just took what tickets I could that were indoor, but this actually sounds pretty exciting. 

Sorry to put a downer on it but if it's puffins in the wild you're after bird flu has decimated the sea bird colonies in the north, and its raging inland Yorkshire too, lots of sad sights of dead birds about.  Most of the tourist stuff will probably still be on hold next spring / summer.