Crossing the tracks at Market Rasen station

Once again G and B gave me a wonderful breakfast including smoked haddock fresh from the local fishmonger, who apparently filleted the fish the day before on Grimsby dock, which is only 16 miles away. after breakfast we had time for B to walk me across the shared large garden to see the river and the old millpond later converted to a fishpond for the big estate. They live in the old converted  mill building which has the sound of water running under the house constantly, which is somehow very reassuring.

At 1030am I has to say goodbye to B, with very big hugs, and then G drove me to Market Rasen station about 12 miles away. The weather was sunny and the landscapes beautiful. I’ve been very lucky with the weather which has been unseasonably warm as well as bright most of the time.

At the station I had to walk across the tracks so i took the opportunity of looking up and down the lines. Once i got onto the platform I was amused to find the painted images on the station’s walls of some likely former travellers, which I’ve added as an ‘Extra’.

The two carriage train was crowded as soon as we reached the next station, Lincoln, which then proceeded to Nottingham, where i found that my next train was waiting. It started its journey to Cardiff at Nottingham, so I got a seat, but by the time it left it was already standing room only. All went well as I watched the countryside pass by, until i changed trains again at Cheltenham Spa to head off to Stroud on a train bound for London Paddington. this was infinitely more comfortable, it being a GWR route. Helena met me off the bus home, and it felt lovely to be back, though rather sad to have had to leave my friends a few hours before. Until the next time. Hopefully Helena can come with me then; she’ll love Louth and the countryside around it.