Thursday July 14

Some locally grown and freshly picked strawberries for lunch..and they tasted as good as they looked.

 

It’s been a pretty laid back sort of a day enjoying just “smelling the roses” with a slow start. Spotted a sign of a car boot sale in town that we felt needed investigating, although wasn’t sure what time it was starting. It was a pleasant walk through town to the sports field where evidently this sale happens every Thursday, but when we arrived at 11.15 many were already packing up. I sensed that a lot of the cars are regulars and perhaps go from one town car boot sale to the next. Anyway enjoyed wandering around but didn’t find anything to buy.

Back into town and popped into the local butchers shop and met Bob the Butcher (not Bob the Builder!), a very friendly chap. Certainly a great selection of quality meats and he cut us a nice piece of steak for dinner and some freshly sliced ham for lunch. Then into the bakery for some bread and meandered home enjoying the sunshine. Such a different lifestyle for us being able to shop like this.

Later this afternoon we drove to Ingoldmell, another holiday beach town just north of Skegness, and probably even busier with ferris wheels, rollercoasters and every other amusement you could imagine. This is the home of Butlins Holiday Camps along with many others, in fact it is a sea of mobile homes stretching for miles and crowds of people. Can imagine what it is like once the school holidays start at the end of next week. Found a very good caravan supply store and added to our collection ready to kit out the van.

Only a few photos today…just cruising!

 

This is for Ian - he loves all the different styles of gates.

The Car Boot Sale - they were packing up and evidently started at 7am!

Walked past this field of barley...at least that's what Ian thought it was.

Bob the Butcher