How to Have a Brilliant Weekend on the Lincolnshire Coast
Back in April I spent a weekend on the Lincolnshire Coast with my mum. We’d been invited by the Lincolnshire Coast tourist board to come up north and experience the beaches, the restaurants and the scenery for ourselves.
We wanted to see the Lincolnshire seaside, hang out on the coast, and generally just have a lovely weekend.
Lincoln is a cool city, so I’m told, but that wasn’t what we there for, we wanted THE COAST. The Lincolnshire Coast is a popular area for retirees, for caravan parks, and for anyone wanting to experience the great British countryside – but I’d never been.
My Weekend on the Lincolnshire Coast
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Day 1 on the Lincolnshire Coast
Driving there
Seaside Lodge
Cloud Bar
Bed
Our first port of call was the Seaside Lodge at Anderby Creek, right by the beach. Lincolnshire is a long way (6 hours drive) from me in Southsea, so I was ready to chill by the time I got all the way up there. And that’s exactly what this place is for.
The Seaside Lodge is family-owned and set right by a fishing lake. It’s also just a three-minute walk from a huge (and amazingly sandy) beach, and the UK’s only Cloud Bar at Anderby Creek. When I read ‘Cloud Bar’ I totally thought it was a bar on the beach with a cloud theme – it’s not.
It’s actually a viewing point for you to admire the clouds around the beach, and to learn more about the formations.
We spent the evening watching the sunset from said Cloud Bar on the beach, trying to work it out, listening to music in the lodge and cooking up some Lincolnshire sausages for dinner, along with some wine. We were ready for our Lincolnshire weekend to begin.
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Day 2 on the Lincolnshire Coast
Mablethorpe
Arcades
Fish and chips at Salty’s
Seal Sanctuary and Wildlife Centre
Beach National Nature Reserve
Let’s start with one of the busiest places on the Lincolnshire Coast, Mablethorpe. It’s a typical seaside town with arcades, fish and chip shops, sweet shops and fudge and candy everywhere. Again, I was genuinely amazed by the beach here as I didn’t know Lincolnshire had such big sandy ones.
Amazing on a summer’s day on a weekend on the Lincolnshire Coast.
In Mablethorpe we sat by the beach with a coffee, played in the arcades for two hours, went in and out of the cheapo and charity shops and then sat and had fish and chips from the famous Salty’s by the sea.
You can’t have a weekend on the Lincolnshire Coast without trying some fish and chips somewhere, and we thought we might as well go to the most famous spot of them all.
Depending on the weather and how much you want to spend in the arcades you can expect to spend half to a full day here.
In the afternoon we drove to the Seal Sanctuary and Wildlife Centre, just a few minutes up the road, to see some of the many seals they rescue each year. There were SO many animals there, from meerkats to monkeys to emus and of course, the seals.
If the weather is playing fair, you can wander Mablethorpe’s six-miles of blue-flag award-winning beach. It wasn’t for us, so I didn’t, but I did get out of the car to check out the landmark beach huts. Colourful and lining the beach you can rent the beach huts out for the day so you have somewhere to store your stuff, and to retreat to with a kettle if the weather turns.
Loved these!
If you go on your weekend on the Lincolnshire Coast in the summer, you’ll have all these fabulous beaches to enjoy.
If you’re looking for more beach action nearby you can check out Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe dunes Beach National Nature Reserve