[This walk was completed on the 19th August, 2021]
It’s 10 o’clock in the morning, but feels much earlier. Skegness is still asleep. I stand on the eerily empty promenade and look out over the milky sea, where the wind turbines are barely visible in the morning mist.
Walk past the lifeguard post – with no guards on duty yet – and then start out across the sands.
Continue reading[This walk was completed on the 18th August 2021]
I follow the track from the car park. It runs southwards towards Gibraltar Point along the edge of a wide area of vegetated dunes. Once upon a time, the sea would have probably reached this point.
[This walk was completed on the 18th August 2021]
I leave my bike behind and catch the bus this morning. Should be simple, but I have two problems. Firstly, I can’t find the bus station, and have to ask someone, because the buses are cunningly hidden behind the railway station. Secondly, the bus driver has never heard of Low Road. Luckily I remembered the name of the garage on the corner. Lomax garage? Yes, he’s heard of that.
There doesn’t seem to be a bus stop here – although Google Maps has got one marked. But the driver drops me off anyway.
Continue reading[This walk was completed on 17th August, 2021]
I park the Beast in a little residential cul-de-sac in Wainfleet St Mary. It’s raining, and I wait until the downpour has slowed to a drizzle, before I heave my Scooty bike out of the van. Wrap my rucksack in a plastic bag, pull on my waterproof jacket and set off.
[This walk was completed on the 12th July 2021]
Well, England didn’t win the Euro2020 cup. We lost on penalties, again. Such bad luck.
Bad luck was going to stalk me for a couple of days. But I didn’t know that, when I returned to Friskney Flats and cycled up to the end of Sea Lane, to take a better look at the mysterious tower.
[This walk was completed on the 11th July 2021]
I really don’t like cows. So, since they’ve taken over the top of the bank, I decide to sneak round below them, and I climb down the landward side of the sea wall. But, they’re down here too! Some are behind a fence, but a whole group are sprawled on the grass in front of me.
[This walk took place on the 11th July 2021]
I leave my Scooty bike chained up against a fence in the car park at Freiston Shore. It’s nearly midday already
It took me some time to find somewhere for breakfast, then I had drive further up the coast and find a place to park and, after that, I had a convulted cycle ride along minor roads – stopping to check my Garmin regularly – to get here.
[This walk was completed on the 10th July 2021]
I finish my lunch, and leave the blue viewing platform. One last look back at Boston…
[This walk was completed on the 10th July 2021]
It’s a Saturday, and the market in Boston is busy. I enjoy wandering past the stalls, and listening to the different languages being spoken.
[This walk was completed on the 9th July, 2021]
The first part of the diversion looks quite appealing – a well-mown path around the edge of an old waste tip. There are gas-releasing tubes and cannisters poking up through the top soil
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Report number:1234 Date: 4/5/26 Location: On the side of the river Arun just past Arundel castle 2 people with dog Laura’s report: “We were walking on the footpath and the cows were quite a way to our right, to our left was the river. The cows started coming over, we went down towards the river […]
Report number:1233 Date: 3/5/26 Location: Aller, near Langport, Somerset Family group & dog Libby’s report: “We were chased and pinned against the rivers edge by a whole group of cows who were kicking and jumping. They edged closer and closer until we were left with no option but to jump into the river and swim […]
Report number: 1232 Date: 25/4/26 Location: Between Overton and Erbistock (Wrexham). Approx What3Words = riverside.period.curtail 2 people no dog Frances’s report: “We crossed a stile into the field and immediately noticed a herd of cows on the other side. They seemed to be minding their own business and facing the other direction so we continued […]
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