Skip ........ can't agree with you ..... I go to Whitby every year not to be seen but for the crack ......... the first time I went 15 years ago I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I walked into the Plough on a Saturday lunchtime, unaware the festival even existed, and found not one but 5 separate sessions going, one in the front room, one in each of the back rooms, singing was coming from the club room upstairs and the garden was full of people with instruments and singing.
Never been to Cambridge, doesn't appeal, and Sidmouth is too far, distance wise, and too close to Whitby financially