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Sep 18
The Day After
Endgame This was one of the finest walks, a combination of wonderful countryside and unstinting hospitality from generous ZANE supporters. It’s not our custom to list those so generous to us individually, but they know who they are. Thank you from Jane and me and Moses. You turned what could have been a weary drudge …
Sep 17
Day 15 – Gorleston-on-Sea to Lowestoft
So to Lowestoft and thence to home via Norwich and a visit to the cathedral. Screen and Not Heard One of our close relations tells me that one of his major worries for his children is “screens”, that is, the addictive nature of the devices that are inclined to stop children from thinking and participating …
Sep 16
Day 14 – Caister-on-Sea to Gorleston-on-Sea
A sand parable A fine day, a pale blue sky. All was well with the world. I watched a small boy – perhaps about four – with doting parents standing close by. He was busy building a sand castle. With a tiny spade, he carefully fashioned turrets and a moat, then crafted a deep ditch, …
Sep 15
Day 13 – Waxham to Caister-on-Sea
Two groups of seals were lazily wallowing on the beach sunshine, grunting and wheezing as we passed. Another morning of hard walking towards Caister and then the penultimate day. I Don’t Really Do Scenic… One kind donor has wondered why I don’t write more descriptive items on the walk, especially in such a wondrously glorious …
Sep 14
Day 12 – Walcott to Waxham
Norfolk’s coastal path has to be one of the great triumphs of nature in the UK. We walked along with the sea churning for six glorious miles today. What is astonishing is that these wondrous beaches are more or less deserted. Miles of glorious sand – and litter-free- and rolling waves. Why don’t holidaymakers follow …
Sep 13
Day 11 – Overstrand to Walcott
Waddle We Do about it? There they were, as we were striding along the Norfolk Coast Path, two obese parents waddling along with two small children equally plump. What a tragedy! Tony Blair’s present views on our obesity problems are spot on. Over the last decade of our walks, Jane and I have watched with …
Sep 12
Day 10 – Weybourne to Overstrand
“A robin redbreast in a cage puts all of Heaven in a rage,” wrote William Blake in 1803 in his famous “Auguries of innocence”. No one can know what he might have written in disgust at seeing dogs being walked on empty beaches or fields on leads! Of course, dogs should be restrained near a …
Sep 11
Day 9 – Blakeney to Weybourne
After so many years, Jane and I are experts in our style of walking. We know all there is to know, and I say this without conceit. After nigh on 3000 miles, we just know, and if we didn’t by this time, we would be really very stupid! First, we know the limits of how …
Sep 10
Day 8 – Rest Day
Tennessee Williams coined the phrase “The kindness of strangers,” and never was it more appropriate than in our Norfolk walk. We never use the names of those who offer us hospitality, for few want that sort of publicity and anyway, by the time we have stated that X and Y are wonderful, what on earth …
Sep 09
Day 7 – Wells-next-the-Sea to Blakeney
Roughly halfway house, and we’ve burned a few pounds from our easy living! The faint muscle stiffness has abated and we are swinging along with renewed confidence as each mile passes us by. About a year ago, I had an operation on my left foot, and I worried whether the foot would survive the inevitable …