Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Norwich and Winterton

The old part of Norwich is surrounded on 2 1/2 side by the River Wensum.  Yesterday we walked around the riverside from our hotel to the cathedral. We saw a ruined old tower, old houses, swans, fisher people,  big trees, good views of the cathedral. We wandered around the Cathedral close.  4 years ago a  modern buliding linking the cathedral with some other old bits was opened.  The way the new blends in with the old is impressive.  You enter the cathedral from this new building.  When we went in we were greeted by a volunteer whose job it was was to tell us about the new building - the hostery - it has an exhibition space, a choir practice room and a room for visiting school groups. We wandered around the magnificent old  cloisters and looked at an exhibition of quilts. We left the inside of the cathedral for today .

We met as arranged the parents of a friend of Wendy's outside the cathedral. They took us to a nearby really old building for coffee in a picturesque old windy cobbled street. After working our way through our list of questions, and other chit chat, we left there and they took us to a village, Winterton on the coast East of Norwich.  We had lunch at a lovely pub, then went for a walk through the village to the beach. We walked through some sand dunes and onto the fine sand, slightly brown by our standards. We walked towards the water and , near the waters edge , there was about  5 metres of sand with stones.  Odd. A bit to the south there was a wind farm in the sea.

We walked through the sand dunes a circuitous way back to the car. On the edge of the sand dunes there was a sign to beware of adders sunning themselves on the paths amongst the dunes. Just as well I had not read this first.

We were driven back to Norwich after a companionable,  very interesting day.



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