Spalding.

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Sounds a bit like a livestock disease, doesn't it? Not promising.

I will have a couple of hours to kill near Spalding, on a probably-wet (given the weather this year) Tuesday lunchtime.

Does anyone have any suggestion? I was briefly excited by the Bulb Museum, but then it turned out it was about plants. And I don't really like museums on my own, or hacking on a strange horse whilst trying to make small talk with a random teenaged girl.

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[miramon.livejournal.com]

They both have interestingly olde-worlde town centres. Stamford managed to survive the railway era almost unspoiled and was recently named the best place to live in Britain (http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/shortcuts/2013/mar/18/stamford-best-place-britain-world also http://www.stamford.co.uk/tourism/attractions.shtml) which doesn't really surprise me. There were good places to shop and to eat and I'd gladly go back there. If you've seen any period dramas on TV you'll probably recognise bits of it.

Kings Lynn has a nice old town around the old port (http://www.visitwestnorfolk.com/explore/kings-lynn), though the suburbs are bit less salubrious. It was definitely worth going to, and we could have stayed longer, but it wasn't as overwhelming as Stamford.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Ta for that. I'll have a look at the tourism stuff and see if there's anything I fancy, in case the weather isn't conducive to wandering.