Our Holiday at Home July 2011: Norfolk beach

Norfolk beach, a photo by Bev & Paul Mynott on Flickr.

This is the beautiful and remote beach we visited in Norfolk on the last day of our holiday - it was amazing! Looking at those waves, we were glad we had Harry the Helmsman with us to stop us being swept out to sea - he has a radio and can call for help. Poor Harry lives inland most of the time, so was delighted to see the sea again and catch up with his RNLI friends!

Our Holiday at Home July 2011: Hamish, Bill and Harry the Helmsman on a Norfolk beach

Hamish, Bill and Harry the Helmsman on a Norfolk beach, a photo by Bev & Paul Mynott on Flickr.

Our week's holiday ended with a lovely trip to a Norfolk beach for us bears, Bev and Paul. We brought Harry the Helmsman with us in case we needed to be rescued - you can never be too careful near the sea, and look at those waves!

Our Holiday

We bears have been playing with the new car so much that we had almost forgotten to tell you what we got up during our week's holiday.  So, here are the highlights:

• We all wanted to go to the seaside, so we drove to Clacton, Frinton and Walton on the Naze.  This is serious codger / codgeress country, with lots of grey hair, walking sticks, mobility scooters and those strange dark glasses that older people wear - spooky!  Anyway, we had a lovely walk along the front at Clacton in the sunshine, then joined the old-folk for scrummy fish and chips in a little tea room.
• We went to Norwich to see the Cathedral, and Bev got some lovely photographs (see below)
• We went to Great Yarmouth with plans to walk along the beach, but as the temperature was below zero, we quickly changed our minds - brrrrr!  It was a glorious but bitterly cold day, and we decided it was time to head back when we spotted the gritting lorries heading out to treat the roads.
• We took the car to Oxford but it was bitterly cold.  So, we will be back again when the weather is better so that us boy bears can check out the student talent!  Oh, and Phoebe can check out the talent too!

All in all, we had a great week's holiday - the weather was lovely but bitterly cold, the car was a joy to drive, and we had fun seeing places we had never been to before.  Here are some photographs:

Norfolk Naval Pillar at Great Yarmouth - built to commemorate Lord Nelson.

Norfolk Cathedral - light from stained glass windows on the pillars.