48 HOURS IN … Lincoln
The weeks before Christmas are a special time to visit Lincoln. From miles away, your eyes are drawn to the extraordinary cathedral, soaring against the skyline, where Christians have celebrated the birth of Jesus for nearly 1,000 years. John Ruskin, the eminent Victorian art critic, called Lincoln Cathedral ‘out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles’.
Walking around the cobbled streets that surround the cathedral feels like stepping into a fairy tale. On aptly-named Steep Hill, with its knee-aching gradient, Christmas trees twinkle outside the ancient buildings, and the shop windows are bedecked in traditional
