LINCOLN — Leaving Norwich, I headed west towards King’s Lynn and a Norman Keep called Castle Rising. Hmmm, I seem to have a bit of a theme going here. This one was in a much more ruinous state than the last two and wasn’t being used as a museum but there was still plenty to look at and climb over. The castle was once the residence of the widow of Edward II and later belonged to the Howard family.

After spending about an hour at Castle Rising I headed south towards Cambridgeshire and Godmanchester. It was a fascinating if slow drive. You finally find yourself on a straight stretch of road with no oncoming traffic so you can pass the truck in front of you only to almost immediately come up on a roundabout where you have to give way to another truck slotting in ahead of you!

I actually drove through Godmanchester without realising it, thinking I was still in Huntingdon. I stopped for some photographs and then headed back north towards Lincoln. The trip north was a lot quicker—for some reason there were less trucks going in that direction.