Final Day of Norfolk Coastal Walk and Family time

My walk for the day was only 2km so I took my time and enjoyed walking past more holiday parks and beach promenades then into Cromer. The end for me.

Interesting Fact 1: Albert Einstein fled the Nazis in 1933 and lived in a small hut near Cromer.

Interesting Fact 2: Cromer is the only place in Europe that has an opera house at the end of a pier. The opera singer who I met a couple of days previously had told me about it. So I made a point of finding it.

The sea wall is failing, so there was work being done to strengthen it. I watched the diggers for ages and learned that barges arrive at high tide and dump off the huge rocks that come from Scotland. There must be a massive hole where they came from, and I wonder what they do with that.  I hope Scotland gets paid well for their rocks.

I sent a video home to my grandson, Finn, who loves diggers. I felt a bit homesick.

And there I was at the finish line of the Norfolk Coastal Path. No fan fare at all, and I must admit that this had been my easiest damn long walk ever. To be fair, it was only 75km and totally flat, so shouldn’t have proved to be a challenge for me.

After a late breakfast at Costa, I popped into the library to use the toilet and found out about Norfolks queer, disabled geologist, and philanthropist.  I guarantee that this description wasn’t used in her lifetime from 1795 to 1857.

I walked out to the zoo where I had arranged a rendezvous with my cousin , Donna.

Donna hails from New Zealand  but has her three grown children and  3 grandchildren  living in UK so she moved over to be close to them.  They live in the  Broads area of Norwich whuch us well known for all the water that hangs around.

Another Kiwi cousin, Monique, came up from London for a few days with us all. So we had a full house.

I had a week here enjoying the family,  healthy food, outings, good conversation, and a few jobs about the house.

I was sad to leave, but I had finally planned my final three weeks in this part of the world.

I had a train journey booked that included 5 different trains over the course of the day, breaking the trip into short sections and the chance to check out 6 different stations.

Wroxton – Norwich – Peterborough  – Doncaster – Manchester – Lancaster. Whew!!

I stayed for a couple of nights with old travel friends, Mel and Sandra. We met back in 2006 in Nepal and walked the Annapurna Circuit  and traveled to Tibet together. In 2007 I spent spent time with them.walking in UK

They are both 79 years old and they remember more names and details about our travels than I did.

We had a day out hunting for flowers with another of their friends.

We won the pub quiz with very little help from me.