Day 09 - Norwich to King's Lynn

This morning we left the beautiful town of Norwich, in the east of the UK.  We headed north and our first stop was in the seaside town of Cromer.

The most amazing thing about the UK, is that while moving through the towns and cities, every second or third building is centuries old, and is either a celebrated heritage site or the front is modernized and it is turned into either a retail shop or office.   

The different areas have different styles, and for example the area close to Norwich and the area we are in today, use pebbles up the walls as well as pebbles on the roads.

 

We have travelled east from Norwich towards the coast and have driven through three or four of the most beautiful, picturesque villages, stopping at a bookshop/tea house near Kelling for a short pit stop.  We continued on to Stiffkey Village and stopped at The Red Lion pub for lunch...   offering fresh local specialities of crab and lobster.   

We both chose the Dressed Crab with lovely fresh beetroot leaves salad, the freshest coleslaw salad and baby jacket potatoes.

Mine of course has been ordered by my ever loving husband who has requested the lack of any recognizable body parts on my plate. (hence his crab has 4 claws in the pictures!)

Turned out to be a delicious lunch!

 

 

And of course I am sipping on my usual half pint of larger and blackcurrant while Paul is working his way through the different ales on tap available from the local breweries. 

 

Needless to mention, by the time Paul is done with the crab, there's nothing left except the shell!

The weather is changing today with really heavy skies and a few drops if rain along the way.  We are hoping that the wet front will have moved through the UK by the time we board our boat on Monday for our canal trip.

Here is a map of todays route.

On our way to Kings Lynn, we drove past Sandringham Estate, the Queen's residence.  Beautiful part of the country. Long solid wall all around the estate and lovely official looking gates.  Paul proceeded to do a doughnut wheelie on the beautifully raked gravel outside the gate.  Can't take him anywhere!

We missed out dinner as I was feeling like I may have picked up a stomach bug with terrible nausea. I was in bed at 4.30pm.  Paul didn't even go and have dinner after our lovely lunch.  He dined on whisky and red skinned peanuts.  Thanks to Nutmania in South Africa.