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Travel Blogs from Thorpe Market
Windy North Norfolk
... interesting and after an hour or so of enduring the breeze we hose to give up and try somewhere else.
Salyhouse was our next stop, a few miles east along the prettiest section of the A149. The end of the beach road that reaches the shingle bank that eventually becomes Blakeney Point is another well-known site for over-wintering birds, this time Snow Buntings and more interestingly Lapland Buntings, one of which had been reported from here the day before at ...
The start of the start.
... But no what i actually done was eat loads of junk food catch up with friends and go shopping. Shopping was very successful I bought a winter coat Sir David Attenborough himself would endorse for nordic conditions. A knitted jumper your nan would be proud of and running trainers the Bolt would wear. All these items are not what you should or would buy if you are planning to go Australia in 3days time. at the start ...
Oh Jays
... noisy birds whose call is a loud, raucous screech but all of these birds were completely silent.
In addition to the Jays there were huge numbers of finches, pipits, Redwings, Fieldfares, Starlings, Magpies and other crows, two Marsh Harriers and a Spoonbill, as well as skeins of Pink-footed Geese in off the sea and Brent geese in smaller groups paralleling the coast. Proper birding, this.
I had sort of promised to make breakfast so guilt got ...
We're off to see the seals
... it whilst the tawdry, tacky and noisy that made up the rest of the town's Saturday night entertainment raned between busy and packed. We were both sort of glad that we weren't on the pull. The one redeeming feature was a genuinely good Indian restaurant called the Bombay Brasserie (I know) on Railway Street (or Road, perhaps) where we had a dish called Chicken Zalwalla that was delicious and highly spiced, coupled with a top quality naan bread. So one thing worth going back for, maybe.
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Norwich City 0-0 West Ham United
... to Kevin Nolan and Matty Taylor but we also road our luck at the back.
Winston Reid was immense and deserved his man of the match accolade, however I thought Mohamed Diame was just as impressive.
A solid point on the road which takes us to 7 points from 4 games and 3 clean sheets. Yes please!
A great day out in Norwich - ...