Thursday 6th February 2014
Diane's birthday (my sister) on Friday so popped over to Lincoln to go out for lunch with her - returned late afternoon when a boat may have been more use on the Belper-Ashbourne road!
Couldn't resist nipping out to Lincolnshire's 'Little Quest' geocache (see Postscript 32), only a few miles along the River Witham from her home!
All of which led me to collecting New Pub No.6, slightly ahead of schedule!
Never been to Fiskerton before so lucky to stumble across such an excellent pub!
Food very good & I enjoyed a couple of pints of Belhaven's 'Grand Slam' - very drinkable! Bit sad that the carpenter seems to prefer tea!
The river makes its quite regulated way through a flat landscape all the way to Boston & The Wash, an area I've walked more often than this.... but which looks to be worthy of further geocache exploration!
A bit of exploration a little further afield may also be in order. Fiskerton was the site of an Iron Age settlement, as evidenced by several archaeological digs: the 'Witham Shield' can be seen in the British Museum while 2 boats & a variety of weaponry are on display in Lincoln, found beside the 2500 year old remains of a wooden causeway. Seems these modern methods of land management might not be as modern as we think....!
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