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From boats to the Bullring
... street to the first of the stalls, selling hot wine, biscuits, candles, tealight holders and cakes, there was so much to see and lots of people about. On the way to the top end of the market we saw hats, gloves scarves, german smoking men, nutcrackers and more biscuits.
There were mummers on route, making the children jump when them moved and the food section was amazing with meter long sausages folded into ...
Day 12
... him in his cab too & fro on many occasions. Gary was a gem and one of those people even tho they may only influence your life for a split second or number of minutes, reminds you that there are genuinely nice people out there. After a short wait we joined the snaking queue and ran through the gets to our train, we managed to procure a lovely seat positioned right next to the toilet. We had to build a little fort to block our line of sight of the trains patrons ...
Wonderful Waxwings
... and widespread here but at other times they are scarce and elusive.
They come from the north and east to feast on our berries and escape the worst of the weather in their breeding areas. It breeds in small numbers in northern Sweden and Finland and then in larger numbers across Russie and Siberia and into north-western North America, extending as far as Washington and northern Idaho.
Given that their normal habitat is in some of the wildest and ...
Final thoughts
... did use his indicators! Never experienced such chaotic driving - definitely not the AC causing a dry mouth!
We met a French woman who is working as a volunteer teacher in a Carmelite orphanage - we've never seen so many schools and the children wear the most stunning uniforms - 100% literacy in Kerala - and incidentally great internet connectivity - always full coverage - not like Anglesey!
Having survived four weeks (almost) without any "toilet issues", Phil ...
Hail to the Bunting
... her breakfast so I made good time back to the car, noting that the thrushes seemed more relaxed now that it was daytime and had moved from the roads and verges and into the hedges and fields and pausing briefly to watch a Short-eared Owl (another recent arrival?) fly across the road from Ringstead to Hunstanton.
Breakfasted and checked out it was east for us, along the coast, to Brancaster from where a Little Bunting had been reported. A few of these birds ...