Cleethorpes, a good old-fashioned English seaside resort with donkey-rides on the beach
Cleethorpes, a good old-fashioned English seaside resort with donkey-rides on the beach

Day trip from Grimsby by Taxi to Cleethorpes, a good old-fashioned English seaside resort with donkey-rides on the beach and the sands full of holiday-makers and day-trippers which was lovely.

Amusements and rides for the girls in Fantasyland until rendezvousing with Daniel at the station for a train ride back to Grimsby where, tired after our exertions, we retired early to bed. The weather forecasts were already indicating stronger winds still so that it might be a few days before we could leave port.

It was the decision of the family that we should forgo the fine weather for a trip to Hull and stay in Grimsby so that we could travel to neighbouring seaside resort, Cleethorpes. We had some delay and difficulty this morning until the marina owner arrived and we could top up with fuel and get out of the locked moorings which had made for good security but poor access. We then tried out the showers which Daniel and I found all right but which were not to Diana's taste. At about 11.00am, the family went for a walk around Grimsby and I stayed aboard to do a few repairs such as re-securing the TV aerial, chart table top and window alarm contact.

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Then they brought me back some lunch and we decided to take a taxi into Cleethorpes which we found to be a good old-fashioned English seaside resort with donkey-rides on the beach and the sands full of holiday-makers and day-trippers which was lovely. The breeze was a bit strong and Diana kept getting sand in her contact lenses but then we went to a cafe, the tourist information centre and finished up in Fantasyland, a children's indoor play facility, where we stayed for hours until rendezvousing with Daniel at the station for a train ride back to Grimsby where, tired after our exertions, we retired early to bed. The weather forecasts were already indicating stronger winds still so that it might be a few days before we could leave port.