Norfolk Broads

Today is Wednesday morning.
On monday we had an uneventful day. One of the other guests at the party drove us to the station and we caught a train, a crowded train and another slightly less crowded train and walked a short way to our hotel in Norwich.  We pottered in the afternoon , found a dry cleaner and shoe repair shop and wandered around some of the old cobbled lanes. Dinner in the hotel was  unremarkable.

Yesterday we had a lovely day on the Norfolk Broads.
After catching a train to Wroxham,  we had breakfast overlooking boats, swans, houses and more boats of all sizes. We found the place where I had booked a boat for the day and were instructed in its use.  Off we went upstream along the river Dare. There were not many boats and after 1 1/4  hours pulled easily into a public mooring at Coltishall  near a pub , the Kings Head, where we had coffee. We had justified a little something with our coffee, they had nothing. Luckily the shop next door had local icecream. It would have been churlish of us not to sample a local delicacy. It was delicious.

We pottered back - in an electric boat it is impossible to do more than potter - to
Wroxham and went on downstream to Horning. There was a lot more traffic . It is still school holidays here. At the first place all the public moorings were taken and there were a lot of big boats double moored. Too congested for us. We went on 10 minutes to another place and Noel executed a very good reverse park in at 90 degree ably assisted by his deckhand. We shared some fish, chips, mushy peas and a fish pie at a nice pub, the Ferry Inn. We pottered back - more boats of all sizes, swans, ducks, interesting houses. It was a very enjoyable, relaxing day.