The Aussie Nomads Motorhome Adventures: NORFOLK

End of the blog for our travels in 2011

Norfolk

After leaving London we drove up to Norfolk to stay with our friends Paul and Christine who took us to so many lovely places over the next two weeks. Norfolk has so many different types of landscapes, forests, farming country and lots of pigs, a lovely coastline and the Norfolk Broads.

It was a surprise to see these windmills as we drove around the Norfolk Broads.

Lots of different types of boats and great river and lake scenery. We saw a few like our old boat Courlis which was originally built here and then taken to France.

And different road signs.

We spent a few days in Great Yarmouth where we saw these wind turbines out in the sea. The parts on the wharf ready for more to be assembled, they are gigantic.

While in Great Yarmouth we visited the fun fairs all along the coast road taking in the length of it by horse and carriage, what fun, it was just like I used to read in my childhood books about the seaside holidays. Kevin and Paul took a ride on a wooden roller coaster built in 1914.

Another day we drove to see the effect of erosion on quite a long stretch of the coast and had a chat to geologists who found quite a lot of interesting fossils in the cliffs.

A lot of towns have their names on signs which also depict some of the history of the town.

After pronouncing this town’s name we were then told it was pronounced Heysborough. I like our version better Happysburg. Another funny thing over here is all the holidays being called Bank Holiday instead of the reason for the holiday like we have ie Labour Day or Australia Day.

Another outing was to Cromer, a town famous for seafood, particularly crabs. It is a typical seaside town with lots of Hotels and B&B’s and a couple of caravan parks right on the cliffs. Not sure if I would be happy in them after seeing the beach erosion.

The beaches here are covered in flint stones which made a loud rumbling sound as the tide came in. I loved the cute bathing huts but it is not an easy place to sunbake.

We went to see the Seaside Revue in the evening at the end of the Cromer Pier. You could here the waves crashing into the pier as we sat in the theatre.

Many of the buildings in Norfolk are made of the flint stones we saw on the beach. Some use the whole rounded stone and other have the cut stone.

This is a sign for a small village pub which had flint walls. Having a drink here felt like sitting in the publican’s lounge room.

A few days before we left on a lovely sunny day we visited Duxford Airfield for the cellebration of the 75^th Anniversary of the Spitfire.

There were planes on the ground to visit then see them up in the air.

There are huge showrooms full of every plane you can imagine, this is one of the first spy planes.

While in Norfolk we were staying in Watton and the town sign is the legend ‘Babes in the Wood’ and the forest where the babes were left is just out of town.