Norfolk holiday 1

Introduction

I went on a group holiday with my parents and a bunch of other people. We stayed in a youth hostel in Sheringham in North Norfolk.

Sheringham

Sheringham is a British seaside town complete with fish-and-chip shops, amusement arcades, and rain. (These pictures were taken on the day we arrived.)

My mother enjoying the balmy English sunshine.
A wind shelter on the cliff (might be more effective had fewer windows been smashed).
Coloured beach huts and coloured lights on the promenade.

Wells

There are a gazillion places called Wells in the UK (plus one rather larger one called Wales), but this one was actually quaintly called 'Wells next the Sea'. How sweet. This was on the first full day of the holiday.

The church had a nice chest.

After drinking hot chocolate in a tearoom while waiting for a downpour to end, we went out along the long harbour wall (about half a mile) to the beach around the end of it.

A boat moored in Wells Harbour.
A fence on the beach.
Moat.
A bizarre bunker - in between many, many beach huts that were individually made and rather more impressive than Sheringham's. And actually on the beach.
Really cool sandbank that becomes an island at high tide.
Public toilets in a strip of woodland behind the beach. Almost every brick had a different name on it.

Eastward

After the delights of Wells, we struck out eastward along the coast path, which is a waymarked route. It doesn't actually go along the coast here; there are wide tidal marshes between the path and the sea.

Yay, mud.
Toxic waste.
A road leading to the horizon (probably not a good route at high tide).
Mmm! Smells sewage-fresh! (Okay, actually it didn't smell of anything from there - still, cool pipe.)

Somewhere else

OK, I can't actually remember the name of the place we reached in the end and where we waited for a bus. It had a church though with a few interesting features.

Now that's better than those poncy chandeliers.
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