The biggest problem is that Whitby can't any longer cope with the festival during school holidays.

The place is already full of the oickies who go there for their holidays or on day trips. The streets are full of them - they've all got a bawling infant in a pushchair, a misbehaving youngster and a sullen teenager. And they've all got at least one dog, and most of them have an elderly person or an invalid with them. What is it about Whitby's cobbled streets that attracts so many pushchairs and wheelchairs? The sole purpose of their visits seems to be to coat the whole surface of the place with a variety of noxious substances - dropped ice-creams, fish 'n chips, chewing gum, vomit and dog shit being the most obvious. There are far too many cheap food outlets - if you keep feeding them they will keep coming back; feed them enough and they breed. The town council seems determined to attract more and more low-life, sending the town further and further downmarket.

Oh, and the car parks are totally inadequate, it was taking me 20 minutes of queuing to park the car no matter what time of day.

Whitby is too good to be wasted the way it is, so I'm not going during school holidays ever again.