Lincoln; Friday, 22 October, 2021

I’d travelled up as far as Peterborough the afternoon before and had spent the morning working out of the hotel, so that I could complete the journey onto Lincoln during a slightly extended lunch break.

After checking out of the Premier Inn in Peterborough I wandered over to the station to catch the slow train up through rural Lincolnshire to Lincoln via Spalding and Sleaford. The journey was very scenic across the wide, open and very flat landscape of South West Lincolnshire before finally arriving into Lincoln.

I walked from the station over to my hotel, checked in and powered the laptop back up to finish off work for the day.

Work completed I headed out of the hotel for a wander, heading up the steep hills of Lincoln city centre to the area around the castle and cathedral.

I had a long wander round the Castle and Cathedral area, including wandering out to the Newport Roman Arch – a former Roman gateway into the city, and the only remaining Roman gateway that still has traffic running through it.

After wandering around the higher parts of the city I walked back down to the newer city centre down the aptly named Steep Hill, which includes some of the oldest buildings in the city as well as an impressive one in seven gradient.

I quickly grabbed some dinner in a restaurant in the lower part of town before wandering back to hotel via the riverside walk.