The Bram Stoker Bench

So recently I've been out and about in the UK actually doing things. During this time I was in the north east of England and for me you can't visit the north east without going to Whitby. Known for it's fish, it's lucky ducks and of course for Dracula.

Whitby helped inspire Dracula as well as being his entry point to the country within the books. Bram Stoker would sit on a hill with view of the ocean and the Abbey. 68 years after his death the Scarborough council and the Dracula Society erected a bench on this hill in honour of Bram Stoker.

When I heard about this I just had to pay it a visit. While the view as probably changed slightly over the years it is still beautiful none the less and I can see why Bram Stoker would have wanted to include Whitby in is novel. I am please to have sat in what was possibly the same spot as Bram Stoker all these years later and even just looking at the picture as I write this makes me want to go back.