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September 2020
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    Norfolk is the new Crete

    September 6, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    OK so not exactly the same, but we have wine, Feta Cheese and there is sea and sand and fingers crossed the sun may put in an appearance? So far so good, great journey arriving on site at West Runton between Sheringham and Cromer at 1.00pm. Herself has a dodgy back so settled in and then sauntered down (slowly) to the village for a distanced pint/gin. Forecast which looked good has now changed to cloudy for the next few days. Back to Muttley for a meat pie and veg meal, very Greek like! No TV signal so used a few giggly bites streaming the golf and Amazon Prime in the evening. Discovered Norfolk Steam Railway want £35 for an isolated compartment to travel the 6 miles to Holt and back, so another plan is dashed. It is now raining...........Read more

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    Day 2

    Cromer

    September 8, 2020 in England ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Well no rain today, but no sun either. Everything is grey, including me. Cromer would possibly have been walkable along the coast path, but back problems dictate the use of the train close to the site all of one stop. Plenty of people in Cromer, mainly old people just sauntering along the promenade getting in the way of us sauntering even slower along the promenade. Cromer still has an old fashioned pier with a theatre on it, closed at the moment obviously but being refurbished. Having ambled a little, sod me it was time for a pint! Very nice too in a converted car park nicely distanced with a collection of the biggest mismatched furniture straight out the local junk shops that you have ever seen. Onto the highlight of the day fish and chips in the famed No1 restaurant, again superbly managed for virus protection. Glad to see there are places taking it seriously for our protection. Back home on the train still grey clouds with a cool breeze. Oh well at least it hasn't rained. Oh hang on a moment...................Read more

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    Day 2

    Tuesday and Wednesday

    September 8, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Tuesday - Day at leisure to rest back as they say. Bit of sunshine filtering through so a day of reading until I persuade herself of the benefits of an afternoon stroll to West Runton beach, and a very nice beach it is too. Lovely sand and a few rock pools. Never seen so many dogs on this trip. People look at us strangely as we have no mutt on a lead. The smaller the caravan/motorhome the bigger and greater the amount of dogs within.
    Wenesday - awake to full sunshine (at last) so off on the train to nearest Sheringham. Pleasant amble around a small market and through the town to the promenade. Stroll east and west until back is aggravated so retire to pub for embrocation in this case Adnam Ghost Ship at its finest! Skilfully avoid the many fish and chip shops only to be forced into an ice cream shop.🍦🍦 This seems to one of these holidays where we are doing bugger all apart from eating and drinking.🍺🍷 😎    Read more

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    Day 4

    Bye West Runton, Hi Blakeney

    September 10, 2020 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Moving day. Around 12 miles to be precise. So we thought we would visit Holt a picturesque small town on the way. Holt has small narrow streets and very few and small car parks. Muttley is a bit bulky. Not a match made in heaven. The first go at a car park in the centre, no space and entailed a bit of precision reversing so we could exit the car park and town. Second attempt at car park two.... err no. Exit town. Third attempt at supermarket car park no...... supermarket closed. Exit town. Sod Holt let's crack on! Wrong road out via satnag - narrow Norfolk roads so no turning till the next village. So back to Holt we went. We are nothing if not persistent, and took a run down a long road to try to street park.... nothing to accommodate our bulk. Returned back down the road and blimey right in the town a 1 hour restricted space was secured for our endeavour. I rewarded myself with a shopping spree in Adnams beer shop and herself secured a blouse in a posh shop. Nice town with great independent shops. Now parked up 1 mile from Blakeney with a sea view from our farm site no less. Blackberry and apple crumble tonight from the posh food shop in Holt. Lovely....Read more

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    Day 5

    Blakeney by bike

    September 11, 2020 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    Bike day today to ease the walking with the dodgy back. Only a couple of miles down the road Blakeney is so like many places along this bit of the coast, with a lot of marshland and rivers seperating the village from the actual sea. Lots of crab catching here and boats go out for seal watching Lovely picturesque village with the coastal path just over a mile from the beach. So we content ourselves with a roundabout walk around the village. Back on the bikes and a ride along the coastal road to the neighbouring Cley next the Sea. This time a beach road is available so we pedal out to the pebbly beach. Cley is a one road village very narrow so we decide to pedal back to Blakeney for refreshments. Well what do you know a pub serving Ghost Ship.... lovely! Bit of shopping for provisions and back home. 10 mies in total so not bad. The sunset tonight was very colourful and sticking.Read more

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    Day 6

    Wells next the Sea

    September 12, 2020 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Nice sunny day so we are off via the bikes and the coast hopper bus to Wells. The bus driver does a fair impression of Lewis Hamilton along the narrow coast road splattering luxury 4x4 vehicles up against the flint walls in his wake. Wells is very nice with really only one main shopping street leading to the Quay and the river which links to the sea, again about a mile walk if you are inclined, and herselfs back is not. Noted in an estate agents window a beach hut on Wells distant beach can be had for the princely sum of £58,000! So we had a sedate saunter around the town and quay with cakes purchased from a very nice bakery, and the obligatory pint of Ghost Ship and then Lewis gets us back to Blakeney at speed.Read more

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