The view as we walked down the 199 steps into the old town was spectacular: down into the harbour, across to the new town and right along the coast to Kettleness. Finally the weather had decided to be kind to us. At the bottom of the steps we divided forces and Peter and myself headed down to the east pier to look for some photos back up the harbour. On the way down we could see that a bridge had finally been built across the gap from the inner to the outer pier, excellent. We enjoyed our walk along the east wall of the harbour impressed with its width; designed to withstand the severest of storms. We were delighted when a small flock of turnstones landed at our feet. Annoyingly I had only taken my phone for photographing views and the shots I took of the birds have gone straight into the bin. I did manage a couple of video clips though, as I did of the lifeboat as it returned to the harbour. Being able to walk out onto the outer east pier afforded a viewpoint that we had not experienced before.
Having explored the harbour we headed back into town to locate the ladies for coffee. Peter and I then went up onto to West Cliff for some more photography across the harbour to the old town and abbey. We ended our visit with a visit to Hammond's Tea Rooms above the jewellery shop. Sadly there were no crab sandwiches but we enjoyed delicious leek and potato soup with cheese scone instead. Sadly the only thing left was the drive home after a splendid few days.
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