The Norfolk Broads

This is another camping related trip, this time to the Norfolk broads and only a couple of hours down the road. I don't know what it is with us and camping but it always rains, no matter where we are in the UK!

For those of you who haven't been to Norfolk, it's as flat as a pancake and was created by peat farms way back when, then they flooded and created the broads. Now the rivers are mostly nature reserves and wildlife, especially birds, are in healthy numbers throughout most of the broads. You can't really get to it by car, so we decided to hire some bikes for the day and have a look at the countryside, which makes it easy to stop at a local pub half way around and then cycle lunch off on the way home. Next time we are going to hire a boat as this doesn't involve sore backsides from sitting on a bike for a day. And apparently they hire out boats to pretty much anyone so we are sorted!?!?!

Here are a few photos from our bike ride, starting out at our camping ground in Clippesby to How Hill, via a pub for lunch and back again.

On the way to How Hill

At the How Hill Nature Reserve

On the way back - Gareth mocked me for taking photos of barley but it looked cool!

And just to say that we've been there we stopped off in Great Yarmouth. Kinda like Blackpool but not as bad, but we've been there never the less...