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mTicket to Ride

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No, it isn't a typographic error it's meant to be 'mticket'. I discovered something rather useful recently. It is that we can buy railway tickets on our railway line via a mobile phone and after paying for them they are then downloaded and stored on the mobile 'phone. These tickets can then be shown on […]

Lynn – Day 4

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Today we wake to a cloudy sky. This does not come as a surprise as it was forecast and we still decide to stop off in Thetford on the way home as neither of us knows much about it. We finish breakfast, pack and set off. We parked near the 18th century Nuns' Bridges which […]

Lynn – Day 3

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Another day, another sunny morning. Today we are going further north to the coast at Hunstanton known colloquially as 'Sunny Hunny'. It's about 40 years since I was there last and we are going once again to look at the cliffs. It was a straightforward, uneventful journey and we reached the old lighthouse in about […]

Lynn – Day 2

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Another hot, sunny day dawned although I wasn't awake to see that part. We went down to breakfast and very nice it was. We both had a cooked breakfast followed by toast and marmalade, of course, then it was time for some serious tourism. Wherever we went in Lynn we went via The Walks past […]

Lynn – Day 1

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As someone, somewhere, had decided to award us a week of summer weather we decided we'd better make use of it before it disappears so we arranged to go to King's Lynn for four days. So, on a hot sunny Wednesday, we set off for a 93 mile journey north to north-west Norfolk which took […]

Lynn – Prologue

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Near the south-east corner of The Wash the town of Lynn was first recorded in the early 10th century when the Bishop of Thetford began the first medieval town there by commissioning the building of St. Margarets Church and authorising a market. Later it came under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Norwich and became […]

We decided to have another wander around the city today with two particular things in mind; to visit the Castle and Pull’s Ferry. On the way to the Castle we went via the Market Place and discovered the 15th Century Guildhall on one edge of the market. The external appearence is decorative and certainly interesting. […]

Norwich – Wednesday

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The cloudy weather is still with us although the weather forecast says that it will stay dry. We decide to head north on the train as Norwich and Norfolk does have some useful public transport links. There is a line from Norwich which runs south-east through the Norfolk Broads to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft called […]

Norwich – Tuesday

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Today dawned cloudy with a forecast of possible showers so 'inside' looks good. We made our way over to the cathedral to look round the inside as we saw only the outside yesterday. The Nave is the second longest, after Winchester, in England. Whilst we were in there we saw a young blackbird perched on […]

We got there in the end!

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I'm not talking about Norwich when I say 'We got there in the end' I'm talking about connecting to the Internet from the hotel. I had a lot of trouble yesterday, after we arrived in Norwich, trying to connect via the hotel's wireless broadband and the receptionist could not give me any advice on what […]