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CLOUDS AND COAST

When renowned Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell penned her hit song ‘Both Sides, Now’ in the late 1960s, the east coast of England was doubtless the last thing on her mind.

Mitchell, of course, used the varied and varying formations of clouds as an evocative metaphor for life and love; but if you’re a connoisseur of the real thing, Anderby Creek in Lincolnshire is the ideal location to spot everything from a cracking cumulus to a striking stratus.

As well as boasting a seemingly endless stretch of soft golden sand, Anderby Creek, near Sutton on Sea, has been home to the quirky Cloud Bar, the world’s first cloud observation platform, since 2009.

Sunshine and cirrus

As luck would have it, we were blessed with brilliant sunshine on the day that we visited Anderby Creek, so we couldn’t really put our new-found knowledge to the test; although I did at least

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