Day 23

Humberston Fitties

An unexpected pleasure! Not the route – I’ve been coming out to Humberston for years, I’ve even walked it around this time of year before with my dad one Christmas – but the weather! So much for all those fog warnings!

We woke up to clear blue skies, so we just had to take advantage.

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Humberston – Cleethorpes

Bright and bracing – the sun was lovely and warm, but there was certainly a chill in the air on the occasions it did dip behind the odd cloud. Thankfully, there was next to no breeze at all, so all was calm at sea (and on land adjacent to it).

It was a little into the postmeridian hours of the day that we passed the meridian post – for those who haven’t seen it, the Greenwich meridian marker line passes through the nature reserve on the coast, so technically today’s walk took us through two different hemispheres! Globe-spanning at it’s most pedantic!

And we’ll level with you here and now – yes, we might have had chips out at Wragby the other day, but if you think for one minute that we were going to walk along Cleethorpes seafront right up to The Leaking Boot and not at least have a small tray to share, then you don’t know us very well at all! Best chips, no question!

We mixed things up on the way back down, taking a wander around the boating lake, dodging geese and noisy gulls as we went – thankfully we’d polished off the chips by then or they might have taken more interest in us!

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“Very close to my ‘second’ 100 mile mark now after a good run out today. A couple of quick wanders out with the girls over the weekend and then I suspect one last trip out early next week should see the record set definitively!”