Sat, 05 Apr 2003

author Tim	location Cricklewood, Greater London, England
posted 08:22 BST 08/04/03	section Europe2002/Europe/UK/England/Essex and East Anglia ( all photos )

Out to Norfolk ( 16 photos )
Awaking Saturday morning, we had a great breakfast and chatted about all sorts of things, including how they thought that I look like Dad (no way!), and of course how they remember when I was born. It's always great to visit distant family friends and somehow feel like you are home.
We took some photos around the place, Les commandered me to fix a couple of things on his computer, before we said our goodbyes, loaded up Percy and traveled ever onwards.
Opting to really just drive straight up the coast towards our destination, we looked around a few small villages and enjoyed driving on the back roads of England once again. Stopped for lunch at a great sea-side pub where we had one of the best pub meals yet, and finally made it to our B&B at Winterton-on-Sea.

This great little place came complete with house-cat, home-made preserves and very friendly land-lady, making it a very relaxing weekend away from the hussle and bussle of London.
We walked down to the sea, where we struggled down the steep sand banks to the beach, before performing the now obligatory stick-your-hand-in-the-sea-to-find-out-how-much-colder-than-Cronulla-it-is trick. It was plenty colder.
Walking back through the one-shop, one-pub village, we noticed a road called "The Lane", which sounds even smaller than the signs we had noticed in two other villages for "The Street". Small-town England at it's best.
That night, we walked up to The Pub and found that everyone from 50 miles around must have decided this was a good pub. No seats, and a couple of old ladies also looking for tables that we would have had to push out of the way to get one when one became available. This, coupled with the fact this was 7:30 and The Pub was only going to be open until 11pm anyway, meant that we decided to just get a couple of bottles of wine at The Shop and head back to the B&B.
Our stomachs were saved by the Les-and-Pearl provided care package, comprising sausage rolls and apples, which proved to be more than enough after our massive lunch. Besides, we had a full English Breakfast awaiting us in the morning.

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