Showing posts with label norfolk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label norfolk. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Norwich Weekender.


Remember when I mentioned that November is a bit of a whirlwind of events? Yep, that.

I'm still really into keeping this space up to date and fit for the purpose of sharing memories, but hobbies and full-time jobs don't necessarily always go hand-in-hand, particularly if you have a house to keep and food shopping and laundry to do on top of that. Being an adult is boring and hard.

Every now and then I tend to get a bit like that but I'm still here lurking. Here are the last few photos from mine and Moon's city break to Norwich a couple of weekends ago.



Norwich is a great city, I was pretty impressed at how much we actually managed to take in given we only really had one day to explore. It's a good for shopping, and I don't mean that in that it has what everywhere else has, it has a really nice mixture of chain and independent shops and there are so many different places to explore. Snooper's Paradise in Brighton might just be trumped by the wonderful Loose's as my new favourite thrift shop of all time.




The Forum had these great pumpkins for Halloween.

Unfortunately we weren't able to go inside Norwich Cathedral as they were holding a communion when we stopped by but we walked all around the pretty grounds to make the most of it.





Such pleasing exteriors.






I saw so many fig trees!



Or apple salt and pepper shakers...









Maud, the Birdcage's resident cat.




I definitely don't think this will be my last intentional trip to Norwich, my main regret is that we didn't get to have a cocktail at The Birdcage as our hotel was pretty far out of the city, so you know, I've got to go back and do that!

Friday, 7 November 2014

Broadly Speaking.


The Sunday of our Norwich city break was spent making the short drive over to take in the beautiful Norfolk Broads. I had actually hoped for a bit of seal watching but it would seem that where we went in Norfolk last year was just about the best place to go to spot them but just a touch too far for us (Moon) to drive before making the long journey home.

What started off as a crisp autumnal walk quickly turned into a damp 'quick, let's peg it back to the car' walk but taking in the scenes surrounding Horsey Mere before heading to quickly get a glimpse of the sea at Sea Palling was so worth it.

I love how the harsh weather conditions of being so flat were so evident all around, some of those trees really look like they've lived a life!







I'm so glad we did this as part of our short trip and I definitely think there should be more excuses created to visit Norfolk at least once a year, it's such a nice place to visit and I always wish we could stay longer.

I feel so lucky that we've been able to get the sea so easily in the last few months, I wonder if I'll be that enthusiastic once December gets here.




We swung by Waxham Barn after seeing they had a craft fair, it was kind of small but I picked up a sweet fish.





The only seal we saw all weekend.












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