Kings Lynn - Clacton on Sea

Things we noticed on our travels from York in Lincolnshire to Kings Lynn in Norfolk and onto Clacton-on Sea in Essex.
The land was mostly flat especially from Skegness to Kings Lynn.
It was all cropping, we did not see any sheep or cattle. The crops grown here are: Potatoes, Wheat, Barley, Oats, Kale, Corn, Beans, Oil Seed Rape, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, onions poppies & greenhouses with micro greens. A lot of land had no fences at all. We lost count of the number of tractors we saw on the road that were involved in harvesting the crops.
Driving through the towns we realised how easy we have it in NZ getting around our towns & cities, quite often you have to stop and pull over to let cars past you going the other way, we will never complain about no parking in Cromwell ever again. We have found the drivers here so courteous and safe.
We sailed over the Humber Bridge then realised we should have gone down the lane that paid the tolls, oh well I will have to try and do it online.
We stopped at Skegness Beach for lunch, beautiful long expanse of sand then you looked out at sea and saw a long line of windmills in the ocean.
At last a lovely warm sunny day 24 degrees
Kings Lynn, where we stayed, was only 10 minutes from Sandringham Estate, one of the King’s residences. It has extensive gardens inside a wall then a large park where there are walk and cycle ways for people to use. Russell Bulling, you can tell Rob Davidson that Maple Glen outshines the grounds in every way except the pottager garden. The house itself is magnificent, as the public is only allowed in a few rooms downstairs I gave that a miss plus it cost $60pp! My photos for Sandringham Estate will be in a separate post.

We carried on around the coast where I was told off by a local after getting out of the car to take photos of some houses. All around our trip I have been fascinated by the different materials that are used in the different counties to build houses. As it is hard to get good photos whizzing past on the road I got Neil to stop where there were 3 delightful homes. Nek minute we had someone at our car window asking why I was taking photos of his house. After explaining why I was taking them, he was lovely, (he thought we were Real Estate agents 😂) The houses here are built of chalk, next county sandstone, neither of them stand up well to the elements but it is obviously freely available. In the County before it was all red brick and up North, stone.
There were beach towns all around here, so pretty and busy! After dallying along for a while we realised we had better get going or we would never make it to Clacton-upon-Sea at a decent hour. We were in the Royal Hotel, right on the beach with the Clacton Pier amusement park right in front of us, with windmills out in the ocean, as there has been at every beach resort we have stopped at. 25 degrees with no wind, I went for a walk on the beach, a perfect way to end the day.Read more