For a weekend break, some of the member’s of the LGT team hooked up the caravan and headed off to the Lincolnshire town of Boston for the weekend.

Opting to stay at a small site of Ivy House Farm, they were greeted by a huge menagerie of animals – goats, chickens, ducks, owls, geese, rabbits, kittens cats, guinea pigs, peacocks to name but a few. The camping proved to be right up our LGTs familys’ street.
As the sun set nothing could be heard, so our intrepid explorers arose well rested and ready for exploring the next day. 

First stop was the RSPB Reserve of Freiston Shore. Freiston Shore is a developing nature reserve with an expanding range of wetland habitats. The reserve is situated on the Wash - the most important site in the UK for wintering birds, with over a third of a million wildfowl and wading birds present during the winter.

The LGT team stretched their legs around the great sea defences that surround the Wash and walked alongside the vast expanses of marsh and sea.

LGT spotted avocets, sandpiper’s and yellow wagtails.
For all you bird lovers out there…….this is your idea of heaven.

Driving up to Skegness, LGT couldn’t help but notice the public houses on route……all with red painted signs outside them. On closer inspection, we realised that they were all Batemans pubs.
On the A52, the main road between Boston and Skegness, there is a small village called Wainfleet, and it’s here that you can visit the Bateman’s Brewery museum.  In 1874 George Bateman and his wife sold their farm and purchased an old brewery. The rest, you could say is history, and with popular brews such as XB and Vallant, and establishments form Lincolnshire spreading as far west as Derbyshire, it would be hard not to experience Batemans for yourself.  

At last, and much to the children’s delight we reached Skegness, where traditional paddling in the sea and Donkey Rides mix with Log Flumes rides and "8 dougnuts for a £1".  Needless to say the sea was paddled in, the donkeys patted, the log flume ridden and more dougnuts than is healthy were consumed by one and all.