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Yesterday we went around Norfolk’s northern coast line, then down through Thetford forest. A10->A149->A148->A1065. It’d make a good day’s trip by any mode of transport, though you need to wait until you’ve passed King’s Lynn for the better views. Here’s the bike at Brancaster Beach:

Brancaster Beach is busy, but never too busy. The hordes seem to stop at Hunstanton, or keep going onto Wells. It wasn’t really beach weather, but I find good company and a beach are always a fine combination.

For lunch we took advantage of the offer the FT is currently running, and went to Fishes, in Burnham Market. Even sans offer it would make a very nice place to have lunch. The food was really very good, even on the limited offer menu, and the atmosphere nice and relaxing.

Further along the coast we stopped at Salthouse Beach. When I first discovered Salthouse Beach, which is a wonderfully pebble covered beach behind a man made ridge. Laura and I sat there for ages on the warm pebbles, listening to the sound of the waves bashing the stones against each other in a very relaxing sort of way. Unfortunately yesterday it had been taken over by people fishing – there was even a van selling espresso there, so we didn’t stay long. On the way out I had fun negotiating the deep puddles on bike:

From Salthouse we started out way home, down the through Thetford Forest, just stopping briefly to stretch legs and sip coffee. The roads were nice a quite down this stretch, excellent Ulysses territory. You’re saved from pictures, as with roads like that, who wants to stop?