Wednesday 10th September 2025

“Oh my, what a blustery day” said Dee.

The tide was incredibly high as we left Sutton Bridge – we’ve never seen quite so much water in an estuary before, and fast moving too.

Great start to the path – 3 miles of tarmac, always a treat. A completely mixed bag of weather today, some sunshine, some rain but consistently windy … and unfortunately we battled the wind head on most of the way. After the tarmac we had easy embankment wall, lovely and flat with the usual estuary mud flats and farming views. We were entertained again with the F35 Lightning fighter jets carrying out their training, lots of neck craning. And an abundance of birdlife today – an absolute orchestra of bird sound at some points – we needed our friend Len with us to identify who was who.

Fair to say it was quite a slog today, even with regular refreshment stops. At 14 miles we resisted the temptation to take the ferry across the estuary, rather than walk the extra 2 miles (weren’t we good)! So at just short of 16 miles we reached our destination in the historic town of Kings Lynn. We felt we needed a pat on the back so headed to a pub for a celebratory drink (or two)!

That’s the Lincolnshire coastline completed for us and we just have a little bit more of the Norfolk coastline to do. We’re getting there … very much hoping that we’ll have the whole of England and Wales done within the next 12 months, health and house-sitting depending.

For today – time to rest up my blistered toes!!