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An adventure – should I?

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When we were last in Hunstanton I wasn't able to get a photograph of the striped cliffs in sunlight because of the position of the sun. Hunstantons position on the corner of The Wash means that the cliffs actually face west across the water so to get a picture of the cliffs in sunlight it [...]

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 got up this morning to find a cloudy sky but it is supposed to get brighter later. After breakfast we paid our bill and booked out but left our luggage until we were ready to leave Brighton later in the day. We went down the road again to Marine Parade to have another look [...]

Wednesday was cloudy when we got up but we were planning to go to Brighton for an overnight stay and the weather was supposed to be better down south. I had become quite frustrated the day previously in trying, and failing, to find available accommodation in Brighton. I didn't think that Brighton was so popular [...]