A Postcard From Kings Lynn and "Sunny Hunny" Hunstanton, Norfolk - 31st October 2020

It's day two of the short trip away to the Swan at Hilborough, halfway between Thetford and Swaffham in West Norfolk. After breakfast in the pub, we head off for a trip to an extremely windy Kings Lynn, with just enough time to do a bit of exploration before it starts lashing rain. There's also a bit of time to split off and get some presents for Isobel's imminent birthday, although we seem to end up bumping in to each other in all the same shops. After that, we head up to the coast at Hunstanton for a poke around the town and the chance to discover its unusual (for East Anglia) stone buildings, built from a localised outcrop of Carrstone - a rusty sandstone conglomerate.

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The view from our apartment bedroom window

The view from our apartment bedroom window

The view out the back from the boys' bedroom

The boys hang around watching a bit of telly

A Singer sewing machine and an R. White's bottle

Harry has pancakes and bacon for breakfast

Isobel at the bar

We nearly get blown off the riverside in Kings Lynn

The lanes in old Kings Lynn

Fred on the High Street

A bike rack in a square

The Duke's Head Hotel

The old Bank Chambers is to let

Optimistic outdoor tables at Prezzo

Harry waves

Harry looks at a statue of Captain George Vancouver

The Customs House

Funky 60s modernist Bas-Relief on a Boots

Fred and Harry wander around in Primark

Harry in Marks and Spencer

Kings Lynn has an actual Wimpy

The 80s New Conduit Street

Another cobbled street, opposite the post office

The derelict Post Office building

An empty shop

The King John statue on New Conduit Street

Harry in front of King John

Isobel in Starbucks

Harry's got a mask on

Fred gets a new case for his phone

Outside looks orange compared to the shop's lights

Back on the river

A Bingo and amusement arcade at Hunstanton

On the windy sea front in Sunny Hunny

We get a bag of doughnuts

A Covid bench

Groynes on the beach

Roller skating and Funcastle, apparently

A mass of signs

A sign for 'Wimming'

The gang in a car park

Harry checks his paper bag for escaped doughnuts

Harry eats a mini doughnut by the wall

People out on the extensive mudflats

Thomas's No. 1 Bingo

We walk around Hunstanton

The wet streets of Hunstanton

We head into Hunstanton town

The boys scope out Lego in the Pavillion Toymaster

Harry waits to pay at the checkout

A masked Fred looks over

Bright foil windmills

Some Carrstone shops and houses

The stone gives the town an almost Northern feel

Hunstanton Models

Cheery butcher statue

Sacks of potatoes outside a greengrocer

An old Victorian shop sign: C. W. Abbs

Another shop retaining its original glasswork

A vine-covered brick hut

The Hunstanton public Library

The Golden Lion Hotel

Kids lob bread at the gulls

Someone takes their tractor out for a spin

The functional-looking Waterside Bar

In the car park in Hunstanton