Friday 19h September 2025
Miles 16.06 Miles
Elevation Gain 85 feet
Total days walking 87 (excluding the swcp)
Total mileage 1786.59 (including the swcp)
Another pleasant night, this time at the Victoria guest house with its lively bar, which, after a hot day of walking, was a very welcome place to enjoy a nice cool beer.
Comfy beds & quiet room, we woke to another bright sunny morning, leaving early to beat the heat of the day, down the road & onto the promenade, a gentle breeze blowing into our faces, with the usual early morning dog walkers & cyclists, commuting to work?
With the sun warming the air, there is once again an abundance of Butterflies in the air. A passer-by shows us a large white & small yellow butterfly that is sitting between its wings, almost taking a piggyback. We watch for a minute before continuing on along the promenade past some elegantly painted beach huts & some not so.
We pass several cafes that are open, but it's too early to stop & some that are closed up for the season. It's approaching 10am, we come to another coffee stop, which opens at 10, so we wait for a few minutes, we can see the staff getting prepared, we are not the only ones waiting & we soon get into conversation with Brian & Betty, who are on a holiday with their caravan & dog visiting the area.
The café is now getting really busy, we have eaten our fill & once again set off on our way.
Further on, we can hear the most incredible volume of Geese quacking away, the noise is intense, the lake is by a residential area & apparently, the noise starts at 4am!
Continuing along the path, we pass the North Sea Observatory, and we pop in, but it's basically just a café with a lecture room, not what we were expecting.
Now nearing Butlins', the famous holiday camps, there is an increase in people on the path & more cafes & pubs, two very drunk boys are walking along carrying their drinks in plastic cups, they are playing some music out of their Bluetooth speaker, Lesley comments on the great choice of music & the drunk conversation begins. They are away in a static caravan for a ''Holiday'' with their partners who are walking on ahead. Neither of the lads work, one is ex-army, the other, we don't know his work history.
We get on to the subject of our walk along the English coast path & cannot believe when we say we have walked from Weston-Super-Mare to Hunstanton in north Norfolk along the south coast Thames estuary, etc & from the Scottish border to the place we are standing, which is increasing with every step
We take a selfie with them!
We continued on. Lesley was under the impression that Butlins was our end destination, but alas, it's about another 3 or 4 miles to go into the heart of Skegness & the train station.
Now approaching the outskirts of Skegness, we take time out to yet again visit a cafe, the walk has been a long one in a hot sun, no shade & plodding on hard concrete takes its toll on one's feet.
Ice cold drinks, with a slice of cake, our sugar levels rise again, giving us the energy to walk the final miles through the streets of Skegness, the family entertainment arcades playing various different tunes all mixed up into a cacophony of sound & mixed with the sweet smell of doughnuts & chips drifting in the air, awaking our senses.
The train station, signaling the end of our trip, is in sight.
Arriving at the station, we purchase the tickets with only a few minutes before the train to York departs, and we collect the tickets from the ticket office, board the train & relax, another 70 miles of coast path done.
At York, we change platforms & wait for our connection to London King's Cross, then a tube to Victoria Station & a local train for the final leg of our trip home, indoors by 21:30
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