Pic to the right shows a corner of the massive mobile home parks along the south Lincolnshire coast.
Determined to make use of the increased hours of daylight, I closed the front gate to Aunty Ruth’s B & B at 6.45am. These early starts make it increasingly easy to achieve the 10 miles before 10.00 am. regime. By 7.15 am. a light drizzle had begun and I hastened to cover the jogger—always important to know that the change of clothes in reserve, is kept dry. One of those light English rains that hardly wets the ground, but quickly makes the clothes damp.
The seeming endless northern outskirts of Skegness are like something from a nightmare. Last week I commented that the Norfolk coast is the UK mobile home capital .The coast of Lincolnshire (per the BBC) is the European capital of mobile homes with the structures parked row on row to the horizon in vast “leisure parks”. I find it ironic that the punters come to escape the crowded city housing projects to live cheek by jowl with thousands of others only a few yards away.
The mobile home leisure parks and Butlin’s resort (Britain’s answer to Disney Land) slowly receded and the country-side continued to be flat farmland with continuous high sand dunes to my right acting as a barrier to a potentially intrusive ocean and also to my view.
Progressing at my most comfortable cadence of 6000 steps per hour, I was able to follow the path on top of the sea wall into Mablethorpe arriving at 1.00pm. Mablethorpe, a small touristic town has an amply selection of economical overnight accommodation.
Many of the town in this region, Scunthorpe, Mablethorpe, Woodthorpe, Winthorpe, Mawthorpe etc. carry the ‘thorpe’ suffix that indicates the ancient Viking presence along this eastern coast.
29.0 kms. walked today per pedometer. Cumulative Kms. covered: 933.7
Hours of walking today including rest stops: 6 3/4
Type of accommodation: Guest house
Cost of bed & breakfast: pounds. 20.00
Please go to Flickr.com (traveller6666) to view pics of the walk.
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