Hubbards Hill, Cleethorpes and speciality chocolate

Sailor is definitely getting used to the routine now, the morning walk was to Hubbards Hill in Louth. It has an excellent website and we met a women's walking group warming up at the gate. You really have to trust where you are going, driving down a single lane track to get to the car park hoping we were going in the right direction. £1 to park for the day. We wandered through the valley along the river, got to the end of the park and decided to go up the steps to walk along the ridge which is adjacent to a golf course. I've never seen stepping stones with a handrail, I have now, thanks to Hubbards Hill. It's a lovely place, not too big, a lovely morning walk.

Lunch consisted of speciality chocolate from the Chocolate Drop shop, divine. Our afternoon excursion was to Cleethorpes, they have some seriously large mansions on the road into Cleethorpes! We first went to the country park which is in the middle of suburbia. It's lovely, lacks signage so we got lost and wandered around ourselves but it was still nice, pretty empty and even had a dog swimming area with their own beach. How thoughtful. Free parking.

Onto Cleethorpes to the beach. Sadly we couldn't go on the main beach even though it was empty. We parked in the leisure centre (£1.50) and walked to the right, along the saltmarsh to the outfall pipe and then back again. I wouldn't say that Cleethorpes was my favourite beach, it has a view of container ships and dogs were really restricted to the non bathing water section of the beach due to the outfall pipe but it was a bird lovers paradise.