what to see in norfolk?

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besides windmills, of course...

anyway, i'm going to norfolk for the long weekend. we're staying in a cottage in harpley, which looks like it's between kings lynn and fakenham (i wish we could have stayed there, sounds great)

anything we should make sure we see, other than trips to the sea and our local pub? we'll have cars, so trips around the countryside are possible and welcome.

colette (a2lette), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Cromer Crab!

be prepared to see a long way, it's *very* flat

Wells is kind of nice, but there are much nicer places along the coasrt that I can't remember the name of.

Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

it's so weird, that's what everyone has said when i say where i'm going!

'there aren't many hills there' and 'it's flat' and 'probably good for riding bikes. because there aren't any hills'

colette (a2lette), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

It's flat as a witch's tit

Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

flat as b*witched's tits.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Gotta see the ducks. There are ducks there. And windmills. But the ducks are better than the windmills. The windmills don't work any more, and the ducks do.

Definitely don't go to see "Honey, I shrunk the Kids" three times in Norwich. It's a crap film. I should know, I went to see it three times in Norwich. I've no recovered yet.

SRH (Skrik), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

go to st peters brewery, in bungay. thats suffolk, but suffolk sounds a bit like norfolk, so maybe thats ok. anyway, i really wanna go there

site is a bit buggered

ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
not being funny, and yeh it's a bit rude of the guy to say it, but if there's truth in diabetes being catalysed by inbreeding then i don't see why he shouldn't do?

wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

No smoke without fire?

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

... actually that Wikipedia entry is rubbish: "The term is considered derogatory because it portrays people from Norfolk as normally being strange, or peculiar." It portrays as them as being inbred and stupid.

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Within Norfolk itself, the phrase is generally known as "Normal for Wisbech", which is in neighbouring Cambridgeshire.

i only heard the expression NFN from my sister when she was a student in norwich; never heard this variant.

Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...

Recommend anywhere to stay in Norfolk, just before Xmas?

djh, Thursday, 27 October 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

By the coast, ideally.

djh, Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link

this place was quite quaint http://www.cleywindmill.co.uk/

owenf, Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

wells next the sea?

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 30 October 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link

yep.

owenf, Sunday, 30 October 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link

i have an irrational hatred of norfolk.

ceci n'est pas un nom d'affichage (ledge), Sunday, 30 October 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link

there is nothing irrational about a hatred of norfolk

owenf, Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link

otm, fuck norfolk forever

have a nice time there though djh

Local Christian Blues (schlump), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

delia smith, bernard matthews, alan partridge, craig from BB6

conrad, Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

"Old Town" & Nathan Fake.

djh, Monday, 31 October 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link

Well, I killed the thread with talk of Nathan Fake.

Any more suggestions for places to go?

djh, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

bit further down towards holkham is the nice bit w/nudist beach etc

http://www.holkham.co.uk/

Crackle Box, Friday, 11 November 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link

Do you like owls?

Spencer Chow, Friday, 11 November 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_Market - town full of poshos

owenf, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

village

owenf, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

I quite like owls.

djh, Saturday, 12 November 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link

I'm also pondering the Suffolk coast.

djh, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Right then ... might go to Norfolk in June.

djh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

six months pass...

Any thoughts on Wroxham and Eccles On Sea?

djh, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link

?

djh, Sunday, 5 August 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Things to do in Norfolk near here: http://www.hermanusholidays.com/ ?

Aside from play the new Nathan Fake album ...

djh, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link

nine months pass...

Any good Norfolk books, possibly nature related?

djh, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link

everything in norfolk is worth seeing. there is no finer country on this earth.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link

god i could murder a crab sandwich about now

but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:43 (ten years ago) link

Mark Cocker's Crow Country starts out in Norfolk. Where is Graham Swift's Waterland set?

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:50 (ten years ago) link

Sebald's Rings of Saturn? Roger Deakin has written a lot about Norfolk. This is a pretty good resource: http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/search_by_surname.htm

Stevie T, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:57 (ten years ago) link

Ah Henry Williamson, now there was a rum old cove.

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:06 (ten years ago) link

In 1935, Henry Williamson visited the National Socialist Congress at Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the Hitler Youth movement, whose healthy outlook on life he compared with the sickly youth of the London slums.[2][1] He had a "well-known belief that Hitler was essentially a good man who wanted only to build a new and better Germany."[3] He subsequently joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1937.[4]

In 1936 he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk. The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) is his account of his first years of farming here.

At the start of World War II Williamson was briefly held under Defence Regulation 18B for his political views, but was released after only a weekend in police custody.[4] Visiting London in January 1944, he observed with satisfaction that the ugliness and immorality represented by its financial and banking sector had been "relieved a little by a catharsis of high explosive" and somewhat "purified by fire." And, "in The Gale of the World, the last book of his Chronicle, published in 1969, Williamson has his main character Phillip Maddison question the moral and legal validity of the Nuremberg Trials".

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:07 (ten years ago) link

Seriously, obviously biased because I'm a Norfolk boy born and raised, but if you can think of somewhere nicer to be on a sunny afternoon that Blakeney I'll eat my hat:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2010/8/17/1282053994984/Blakeney-Norfolk-England-006.jpg

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:09 (ten years ago) link

Anywhere with a hill tbh

nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link

There's a hill in Blakeney. Perfect for a post-mudslide 99.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link

Any good Norfolk books, possibly nature related?

― djh, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:00 (Yesterday)

i mean does arthur ransome go without saying

wince (imago), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link

coz, like, coot club nails it

wince (imago), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link

Thanks all.

djh, Thursday, 13 June 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

Time for my regular "Any north Norfolk coast recommendations (for next week?)" query ...

djh, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link

six months pass...

Any recommendations for Sheringham or thereabouts?

djh, Sunday, 27 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

Weird. I didn't ask for north Norfolk recommendations in 2017.

Any for 2018?

djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link

it was nice in 2017, i'm sorry you missed it, you should have asked

mark s, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link

Strangely I can't remember whether I went to Norfolk in 2017. I should probably head over to "This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties."

djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link

Thinking about it, I did.

djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link

Anyway, any recommendations for good north Norfolk walks outside the obvious - we tend to do Holkham beach, the sea wall at Cley and bits of the coast path?

Actually, I probably need poor weather plans, too.

djh, Saturday, 17 March 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link

Any parts of the Peddars Way particularly good?

djh, Thursday, 22 March 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link


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