Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was partly set in Whitby, where Dracula's coffin first came ashore in England at Whitby harbour so where better to spend Hallowe'en Sunday 31st October.

It is said that Bram Stoker was inspired to write his novel when he saw pall bearers carrying a coffin up the 199 steps to the cemetery at Whitby

So here I am at Whitby Abbey on Sunday morning clad in black with a few splashes of blood red.

I encountered my first vampire of the day and she was wearing a tartan skirt!

Then I met a kiltie and his lass

You meet all kinds of interesting people in the cemetery at Hallowe'en!

Purple lady

Gothic Glamour

The pangs of hunger, the wafting smell of fish and chips and the haunting sound of Uillean Pipes soon brought me down the steps into town.
Town scenes to follow shortly:-