Another Sunny Sunday from York to Lincoln With a bit of intrigue Sunday 22nd June

I loved York, the town would have to be one of the nicest we have been in.  The old streets crammed with interesting shops, the Cathedral standing proudly over the whole lot.  Then the countryside, so diverse.

As you might know my whole interest in this trip stemmed from my research with family history and finding where our ancestors lived.  Not too many came from York, but I did manage to come face to face with a dubious looking character, who could have quite easily been Robert Jillett/Thomas Elston, whatever name he thought of going under at the time.

In fact he came with a cast of many, using the Hansome cabs that were invented here, and all for the filming of a film, The Knifeman.  Based on a true story but my friend didn't know if the baddie was deported in chains!

This was being filmed inside the pedestrian part of the old city, and you can see how the shop fronts could be from any long forgotten era.  While the place was alive and buzzing during the day, there was hardly a restaurant open at night.  We chose the Old Assembley Building, which housed Ask Italian.  Would hate to think how much rent they pay on this magnificent building.

Might need a bit of a restumping on this one!

Thoroughly enjoyed our three days. It doesn't matter where you are, which town you are visiting, there is always something amazing to see.  Living here must be like being on a permanent holiday!

After a new front tyre, we headed towards the Humber Bridge, a huge suspension bridge built 30 year ago at a cost of 250,000,000.  It held the record for a while as the longest suspension bridge in the world, but like anything that holds a record, someone is sure to overtake it!  Anyway it made a fantastic sight on the approaches, but all I could manage were some photos while we were driving across.

Then we drove to Grimbsy, a port on the north side of the Humber Strait, across from Hull.  Along the way there it was refinery place, so many of them.  Grimbsy hosts lots of very old run down unused brick buildings and must have been a bit of a wild place in the old shipping days!  But John being John we ended up down at the wharves, and spoke to a couple on a bike, because we had seen thousands of Suzuki cars lined up in a storage yard.  They import the cars here they told us.  And there was a rather large boat coming into view.

Now I am not going to say anything else here, because we were enjoying ourselves when a nice security man told us we shouldn't be in the area, and since September those years ago, that photographs in such surrounding were not allowed.

Suffice to say we have been in the Panama Canal, but this was mind blowing stuff.

A couple of clues, one or two large container ships, a very narrow canal, and then entry into a much larger harbour.

Enjoy what we saw.

The general area where we were.  Mind you there were no security gates, no signs that we saw, and we had no idea of the rules!

In the distance is where it ended up

Along the way we stopped at a little place Waltham, with a windmill the same as Thomas Jillett's in Oatlands Tasmania, I reckon they stole the plans, cause this one was built in 1878.  Unlike Oatlands it does not work.

Now we are in Lincoln.  Tour bus tomorrow because there is no way I am walking the very steep hill!