An English Experience: B&B in Whitby


A new essay has surfaced at TheScian.com. It has got pictures and you can click and hear me mumble and pretend to read it.

Whitby, a seaside town in North Yorkshire, is home to Dracula's cave, gothic gulls, and a B&B establishment that charms its guests with a roaring toilet the size of a matchbox, and a suicidal room heater that is colder than CERN's cryogenic systems. To this town, we - I and my wife Ramya - were headed for a vacation. Read on or listen to the audio.

If you want to volunteer your reading skills and have a good mic, send me an email [selvakumar @ gmail .com ]. There are stories at TheScian.com that I'd love to have in audio hosted up.

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