It isn't often that I've managed to get away on a pre-Christmas break, but that is what I did recently when I paid a first extended visit to one of our most beautiful and underrated cities, a place that had been on my to-do list for some time.... It wasn't my first trip to Lincoln, having been here a few times for football and once many years ago on a coach trip to the Christmas market here. But this was the first time I had booked a trip specifically so that I could have a wander around this historic city and try some of its many pubs. Having belatedly acknowledged my Lincolnshire connections from my paternal grandmother who was born in the county, I have decided I will make a least one visit to the county each year ( this was actually my second ). And so here I was on the train, a journey involving 3 changes on the way that took just shy of 3 hours from Halifax, the landscape flatter and ever more expansive as we got into Lincolnshire before the suburbs of the city starte...