Norfolk jollys
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Bewilderwood is ace. Treetop houses swings bridges etc. Banaham zoo is very good.
Morkai
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You can always nip to Great Yarmouth, some good chip shops around, but it is a bit trashy.
Len the dog
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Just a couple of weeks ago, the beach at Gorleston was voted one of the best in the world. They must have visited a different Gorleston to the one I know.
Overlay
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O Yes highlynrecommend my grandkids loved it when we visited them
But Nanny overlay didn’t appreciate the swing bridges.
Well worth a visit, different to the places hereabouts
Len the dog
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The gun room at Sandringham is very interesting, though that might be a hard sell to the wife and kids.
NoIDeer
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Good luck, Easter in North Norfolk is fun. Eric's fish and chips at Thornham is pricey but good. Sunny Hunny {Hunstanton) is good for a kiss me quick day out. Holkham beach is endless, Sandringham is good for woodland walks and people, lots of people. Wells next the sea is a nice little town with eating places.
Stalker62
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I drove through Great Yarmouth once.
I drove past the Police Station.
Could not help but notice, someone had kicked in the glass front window (of the actual Police Station).
Also saw more 'shell suits' (outside of Merseyside) than any man ever should.
Get your chips somewhere else...
Morkai
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@Stalker1962 @Len the dog I was going to mention the mass of obese tracksuit families, people with dole poles, sympathy sticks and mobility scooter mobs but I wasnt sure if I'd offend any if the yokels on here.
Next time I visit my friends in Norwich I'm calling by Thetford to see all the Dad's Army stuff.
I forget to go every time.
Next time I visit my friends in Norwich I'm calling by Thetford to see all the Dad's Army stuff.
I forget to go every time.
Leec6.5
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I have mobilised and demobilised out of Gt Yarmouth a fair bit over the last 20 years and I will happily say that the best thing about it (in my opinion, and that of the majority of my colleagues) is the road out of it.....
Leec6.5
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Good shout, it’s a shite hole!
Len the dog
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OK so it's just over the border in Suffolk, but if you think Gt Yarmouth is bad, wait until you've seen Lowestoft.
For young kids Hunstanton is a good spot. Lots of sandy beaches and amusements such as rides and crazy golf. It has a nice indoor pool on the front. Farther north at Old Hunstanton the sand goes on for miles - as good as Holkham but not in all the posh papers. As you go east it's a salt marsh and sand dune coast so not really kiddy country until they start to watch birds or sail.
If you want to see the Broads then get on the water as there is little to see from the bank. A day boat with a hard top and tea-making kit is from (say) Wroxham is good and everyone gets a chance to steer (with help). The museum of rural life at Gressenhall is interesting and is full of nostalgia. They do various presentations that kids can join in if they wish and my grandlings used to love it. They are all nearly grown up now except for the afterthought who is just one. Pensthorpe has a good show of wildfowl etc. plus a kids' nature trail, with an optional ride at extra cost. I think Park Farm at Snettisham still has deer rides to see the reds but you would have to check.
Wells, as above, is a nice little old-fashioned sort of spot with two good chippies on the front, opportunity for a miniature train ride down to the lifeboat station, and interesting shops including a good SH bookshop by the old station. The yuppies are intruding there but it's not Burnham Market yet.
Will that do for starters ?
If you want to see the Broads then get on the water as there is little to see from the bank. A day boat with a hard top and tea-making kit is from (say) Wroxham is good and everyone gets a chance to steer (with help). The museum of rural life at Gressenhall is interesting and is full of nostalgia. They do various presentations that kids can join in if they wish and my grandlings used to love it. They are all nearly grown up now except for the afterthought who is just one. Pensthorpe has a good show of wildfowl etc. plus a kids' nature trail, with an optional ride at extra cost. I think Park Farm at Snettisham still has deer rides to see the reds but you would have to check.
Wells, as above, is a nice little old-fashioned sort of spot with two good chippies on the front, opportunity for a miniature train ride down to the lifeboat station, and interesting shops including a good SH bookshop by the old station. The yuppies are intruding there but it's not Burnham Market yet.
Will that do for starters ?
BenBhoy
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Thank you kindly sir
Gorleston is pronounced in the local vernacular ‘gallstone’ on account of it being a very similar experience.
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