Day 14 - Lincoln

We stayed in a big hotel tonight in Nottingham, which fortunately included breakfast – yummy English breakfast.

We tried repacking – everything doesn’t seem to fit in our bags anymore and we haven’t really purchased anything yet!   

Revisited our school from yesterday to farewell them and thanked them for their terrific hosting of us.

Using Sally we then got to Coddington which is about 5 minutes out of Newark on Trent. This was about 1 hours travel.

We then decided to go and explore Lincoln which was about 40 minutes away.

This was a terrific place - could have easily spent longer there. Took a tour of Lincoln Castle - which was build back in the 11th century. Was then used as a prison - and had a history of hanging prisoners on the walls for the locals entertainment. It is now used by the courts as well.

Across from it is Lincoln Cathedral which is huge - apparently the third largest/highest in the world - after Rome and York. It was the highest building in the world for many centuries. It is massive - managed to get in before closoing time to see the inside - the choir was practising so that added to the atmosphere. 

Then Eleanor (my cousin) took us down some very steep narrow roads between shops to the water's edge and had a coffee. The problem was the car was still at the top of the hill so we then had to make our way back up again.

More photos on our milsonkiwi site!

Came home on some very narrow country lanes and now enjoying an evening catching up with family gossip!