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.
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.
