Weather: Cold and icy
Distance:
2 km (1.2 miles) Total Distance: 2814 miles
I was up working in Grimsby again. We finished work reasonably early, went to the Oaklands Hotel and were
still not too hungry at 6 o’clock so I persuaded my colleague to go for a walk – part
of the coastal walk! The only drawback
was that it was freezing cold – literally and the promenade path we had to walk
along was covered in ice. I drove to the
desolate car park near Humberston, changed into my boots, lent my colleague a woolly
hat and we set off – but the first thing he did was to stand in an icy cold
puddle and get a wet foot!
We struggled
along in the pitch black, barely able to see the path and had to rely on the
moon shining off the puddles to see where they were. I was aware that this was the first
time I think I had done any of my coastal walk in the dark – at least on
purpose! We only went about a mile,
down to almost the leisure centre before turning around and making our way back
to the car.
I felt sorry for my colleague as he
seemed pretty cold by the time we got back.
There was a security man in the car park when we got back to the car –
probably wondering what sort of people leave a car in a desolate car park on a
night like that. We rounded the evening
off by going to Steels Fish and Chip Restaurant in Cleethorpes hand both
enjoying a fish supper.
It was very
popular even in deepest December. Back
at the hotel there was a disco in full swing but keeping to their word it did
finish before midnight.
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