I woke at about 5am this
morning and lay awake listening for whoever else was staying in our
guest house to go into *my* bathroom. At 6.30am I realised
that rather than waiting for them to get in the bathroom first (which
would really boil my piss) I should get out of my pit and do my
ablutions first. So I did.
We met the newcomers at
brekkie. They were hippies (!) And vegetarian hippies as well.
I wasn't having any of their nonsense as I scoffed my sausages and
bacon.
The hippies said their
goodbyes; they were only staying the one night. As "er
indoors TM" got ready I watched for deer
out of the conservatory window. Unfortunately there weren't any about
today. "er indoors TM" was soon
ready and we set off for today's excusion.
When we decided to come
to Norfolk for our holibobs we asked on the "Geocaching in
East Anglia" Facebook group if there were any must-do caches
in the area. The first place we were told about was the geo-walk
around Castle Acre. We were told it was a walk of five and a half
miles which would take about three hours, so we had our morning
mapped out for us. We found the place and started walking. I made a
minor navigation error initially, but I can throw the pair of us over
barbed wire fences when the need arises. Despite our little diversion
we had an excellent walk. We saw trout swimming in the river, we
found friendly cows, and we even saw a grass snake. If only I had
been quicker with the camera...
As we walked we found
ourselves passing the entrance to the ruins of the Abbey, so we paid
the nice lady from English Heritage and had a liittle diversion
looking round the place before continuing with our walk.
As a geo-walk it was
good; all of the cache hides had excellent GPS co-ordinates.
Personally I would have put in a few more caches (but that's just
me). But like all cache series the published distance was
something of an underestimate. Billed as a stroll of five and a half
miles, "Hannah" measured it as a tad under eight
miles (and I did turn off the GPS as we took our abbey diversion).
Mind you for all that the
walk was described as one of three hours, the same description did
warn us that it was possible to spend all day in the area. We did
spend quite some time looking round the Abbey and then at the end of
our walk we had a look round the castle then had a cream tea. Our
original plan was to visit Castle Acre in the morning and then go on
to Sandringham in the afternoon. We finished our cream tea shortly
before 5pm.
We abandoned our plans to
visit Sandringham. We'll go there another time.
We'd had advice for where
we might have dinner. The
Ferry House in Surlingham is only a mile fom our guest house,
but what with there being a river in the way it really is quicker to
walk there from the guest house than it is to drive there. But we
were coming from Castle Acre so we drove.
The place was welcoming;
the staff friendly. the beer choice was good and the food excellent.
I'd certainly go back again if the opportunity arose.
I
took a few photos whilst we were out and once back to base I put
them on-line. As I type this I'm feeling rather sorry for our host at
the guest house. There is some big rugby game on the telly; he's been
raving about it since the moment we arrived. He's been looking
forward to it because tonight the guest house is full and he's been
expecting to watch the match with a room full of like-minded rugby
fans. Everyone else is currently cowering in their rooms, and I'm
only in the lounge because I've paid good money to be here.
Periodically (when
something rugby-ish happens on the telly) he's making noises of
amaazement and wonderment. He simply doesn't understand that I have
absolutely no interest in the rugby whatsoever and hasn't noticed
I've spent the last hour messing on my lap-top...
Apparently England lost
and "we" have got to do well against Australia next
week... Speaking for myself I'm not going to make any effort against
Australia at all...
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