Wroxham, North Walsham and Cromer

We left the River Waveney Centre this morning and headed across country to explore Norfolk.

The countryside is of course very flat and agricultural but id nevertheless very beautiful. There are some lovely villages and of course lots of water.

Our first destination was Wroxham, known locally as the capital of the Norfolk Broads. It was very very busy with what looked like lots of organised boat trips leaving of the Broads.

It didn`t look like it was our sort of place so we carried on to North Walsham.

We parked up and had some lunch then a wander around the town. It was a nice enough place to spend an hour but nothing out of the ordinary really, so back to Ed and onward.

Next stop was Cromer, back on the coast. We parked on the west promenade clifftop car park for a reasonable £1.50.

We had a wander around the town and down to the pier.

Cromer is a traditional English seaside resort with a mixture of typical pubs, fish and chip shops, bucket and spade shops, Polish shops and Charity shops.

It seems to be living on past glories and has now seen better days, but it`s still ok for a short visit.

It was interesting to note that Cromer is one of the few places where if your hotel window faces the seafront, in Summer, you can watch the sun rise in the east and set in the west from the same window !

Our chosen site for the night was, or seemed, as there was nobody to ask, booked up full, so I drove to a little village called Weybourne and we are on a site called Fox Hill (GPS 52.941872   1.133643).

It`s a very small friendly site and is situated next to Muckleburgh Military Collection, This seems to be a private museum collection of tanks and guns.

After tea I went for a circular walk around the Military site, down to the beach and along back through the pretty village of Weybourne to the campsite.

There were anti-aircraft gun emplacements pointing out to sea, I wonder if they know something we don`t ?

It`s been blowing a gale today although it seems to have subsided in the last hour but we`ve had a bit of light rain in that time.

No photos for today, I forgot to take the camera with me to Cromer and it was far too gusty anyway to stand still enough for photos anyway !