Skegness 29th June 2013

To celebrate Julie's Birthday on the 29th June 2013 we decided to have a ride up to Skegness. It's about 80 odd miles to this typical English seaside town from our home. The roads were quite busy and the long straight roads of Lincolnshire seem to encourage boy racers to go as fast as they can, the many bikes on these roads are no exception.

It was warm enough even if the sun was a bit elusive. There are all the usual rides and there seemed to be a lot more customers that there was when we recently went to Great Yarmouth. 

The Skegness 'Log Flume' has two steep drops and offers a great chance to get wet even if it's not raining.

In this picture the beach looks a bit sparsely populated but as mentioned earlier here were quite a lot of people at the resort.

Dominating the skyline is the huge reverse bungee ride. This is known as the 'Sling Shot' and as the sign above says it's the tallest travelling one of it's kind. It uses 'elastic' ropes to fire a small capsule containing two brave/foolhardy customers up into the sky. They accelerate to 100mph in 1.5 seconds and are subjected to 6G! Not really for me but interesting to watch.

On the way home we stopped at 'The Ball House' for a brilliant meal. Although is was quite expensive it was one of the best steaks Julie and I had ever tasted. The Ball house is situated to the North East of Boston. You can read more about this great pub on their web site http://www.theballhouseboston.co.uk/ . Incidentally if you are wondering about the name it appears that the original building on this site was used for storing cannon balls. If you are ever in the area do have a meal there, we can thoroughly recommend it.