Grizzly threw the curtains back and the sun streamed in, onto me, still in bed! And it pretty much stayed that way for the rest of the day.
We just had 2 parts to our day today. There were no real stops planned apart from a fuel stop but after a couple of hours on the road we decided a stop was in order, at Flamborough Head. On the way down we'd stayed close to the coast. I never knew the north east was blessed with such lovely seaside towns and beaches, Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-sea, Bridlington, etc. We skirted Whitby and Scarborough too.Everywhere we rode, there were dozens of people, some even brave enough to brave the cold north sea.
Flamborough Head was the last waypoint before our fuel stop but was too nice to just ride to and straight out again. We parked the bikes, had a wee, then Grizzly fueled up with coffee and a buttered scone, whilst I had a waffle cone with raspberry razzle ice cream. The place, like everywhere we've been or ridden through, was thick with people, hardly surprising given the glorious weather. We have been very lucky with the weather, though as I type, it is raining hard and thundering. Looking at the forecast for tomorrow, we could well miss the showers again. Fingers crossed.
The old lighthouse, 1672
Fuel stop was Bridlington Tesco. From there we continued south through more lovely seaside villages, Hornsea and Withensea, the latter reminding Grizzly of a place in Cork. I swear he got all teary eyed! We ran down to The Spurn, basically a pointy outcrop of land at the Humber estuary. There wasn't really anything to see there, so we made a plan to stop at the next petrol station for coffee. On the way we went through a village called Easington, where there was a huge gathering of twitchers (bird watchers), so there must have been a rare bird sighting of some description. There were some very big cameras on show. A quick Google is talking about a black-browed albatross!
Following our coffee stop we crossed the Humber Bridge. It's free to bikes and we even had a lane of our own, sailing by all the cars queuing to pay. Wow! I had no idea that the Humber was so wide. It's a bloody big river and a bloody big bridge.
After a long hot day in the saddle, we arrived in Grimsby, our stop for the night. The view from our room is a bit mixed St James' Church and Wilco's roof!
There's a nice memorial on the green, to Grimsby fishermen.
Tomorrow, as we start week 3, we are heading for Lowestoft. Hopefully the weather will hold.
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