Day 343
Cromer to Winterton-on-Sea
At 9.30am on Cromer Pier I met up with an old friend and work colleague who I hadn't seen for sixteen years. Mark and I had a great morning walking along the beach in a Norfolk sea mist which Mark explained was referred to as a 'fret'. We had so much to catch up on and by the time we knew it we had reached Bacton where it was time for a microwave pie from a cafe before Mark's wife Annabel came to pick him up.

I then continued along the beach with the sunshine which had soothed away the fret. Along the way I saw some significant cliff erosion. In one instance, near Happisburgh, a road had just been cut off.

On the beach a little way before Winterton-on-Sea there was a small colony of seals. Doing my best seal impression I entice a couple of these inquisitve creatures over to me, and a seal pup came out of the water to have a closer look! I must have impressed him (or her). I stayed the night in Winterton-on-Sea.

Day 342
Wells-Next-The-Sea to Cromer
Another heatwave day but the cooling coastal breeze kept wafting its windy magic. I left Wells-Next-The-Sea along the Norfolk Coast Path past Stiffkey and Morston. At Blakeney I had lunch outside a mobile cafe and received lots of donations. Then past Cley-next-the- Sea and the salt flats at Salthouse onto Sheringham and then Cromer where I stopped for the night. After a refreshing early evening shower prior to going out for some dinner I decided it would be a good idea to apply toothpaste to the chaffing in my nether regions. Menthol madness! After another quick shower I found the correct tube of Savlon.

Day 341
Hunstanton to Wells-Next-The-Sea
I had stayed the night in Thornham having got a lift up there last night to find accommodation. This morning after breakfast I momentarily knocked myself out as I walked through a low doorway in the pub where I had stayed. I know that nowdays we are urged to go to A&E and get ourselves checked out but I decided to press on, not however, before 'I had a word' with the management. It turns out that the pub is owned by a celebrity chef who a few weeks earlier had insisted that the warning sign and strip of padding that had been fitted over the doorway be removed  because it was deemed unsightly by him. In this modern litigious world of health and safety, I diplomatically explained that a sign should be re-instated along with a new strip of padding as a matter of urgency.  Later that day I received a concerned phone call from the management to check that I was OK (I was) and to re-assure me that a sign and strip of padding were being re-instated over the doorway as a matter of urgency. Good! Hopefully other guests won't suffer the same fate.

I got a lift back to Hunstanton and continued along the Norfolk Coast Path in gloriously hot and sunny weather with a gentle cooling sea breeze. The route took me past Holme-Next-The-Sea and then right past the pub where I had stayed and nutted myself. 

Then through Brancaster and Burnham Overy Staithe where I had an ice cream. Near here I found yet another classic case of hide and seek signposting for the Norfolk Coast Path. I met another walker (a 'marine on leave') struggling with the route-finding too! We eventually found it peering out from behind the corner of a boat shed. For goodness sake. If you are going to put up a sign post directing walkers, make sure you they can see it. 

Then a lovely section of walking through sand dunes and alongside a pine forest at Holkham Meals. Around here I saw a marsh harrier. Big bird. Then along a sandy beach lined with beach huts before reaching the lifeboat station and following the water's edge up into Wells-Next-The-Sea. 

Day 340
King's Lynn to Hunstanton
Having travelled back up to King's Lynn yesterday I set off this morning in glorious hot sunshine. Some of the way was along a cycle route which took me past Sandringham House where I stopped and had lunch at the Visitor's Centre. Then on down to Heacham and along the coast on the sea wall to Hunstanton.

First thing this morning I did a phone interview with BBC Radio Norfolk. Then I took a train from London back up to King's Lynn, where I did another radio interview with "KLFM967".

Day 339
Holbeach St Matthew to King's Lynn
I got a lift back to Holbeach St Mary and then followed the lanes and dykes into King's Lynn. Today I crossed from Lincolnshire into Norfolk. This was the last day of this leg. Tomorrow I take a train back down to London. The journey time back home will be considerably less than it has been. I'm getting closer!

Day 338
Boston to Holbeach
Along the bank of the Haven and over dykes next to the salt marshes. Then after crossing over the 'Fosdyke Wash' I followed farm roads to Holbeach St Matthew where I was collected and taken to Long Sutton for the night.