What a week! What a beautiful farming landscape! We were fortunate to experience excellent, if cool, weather. The cold wind picked up later in the week so that we we reminded of our youthful excursions into the countryside where we complained of the Lazy Winds - they blow through you and not around you! Open fields allow excellent vistas, but the wind can be a cold companion.
Lincoln cathedral was as magnificent as ever. My childhood was spent under it's shadow and within the range of the bells' peel. No matter how many time we visit the cathedral, we always find the building a splendid place to be. A place of stillness and quiet.
From Horncastle we took the Roman road to Caistor -
‘Venta Icenorum’ (Market Place of the Iceni). This town is one of the key villages that are part of family history. The new
Art Centre and Heritage Centre provided a tasty lunch. St Peter and Paul's church was open and proved to be well worth the visit.
The farmhouse which was the grandparents' home was also located - even the Yews and the gate evident in old photographs still stand.
We also visited the churches at: Hemingby, Goulceby, Digby and Rowston.
Some excellent pub lunches and dinners made sure we were well victualed - one of the delights of being in England.
Less pleasant - the road traffic ... Luck was with us: we avoided a fatal accident by no more than 2 minutes. The accident was near Digby; a 19 year old man was killed and his girlfriend badly injured. Such events certainly focus the mind ...
