The view from our apartment bedroom window
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, just before the lashing rain, but with enough time to do a bit of exploration before it gets too wet. 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 out the back from the boys' bedroom
The boys hang around in the moring watching a bit of telly
A Singer sewing machine and an R. White's bottle in the restaurant
Harry has pancakes and bacon for breakfast
Isobel at the bar
We nearly get blown off the riverside in Kings Lynn
Fred runs about
The lanes in the old town where one of the Dickens adaptations was filmed
Fred on the High Street
The Duke's Head Hotel
The old Bank Chambers is to let
Optimistic outdoor tables at Prezzo
Harry waves
Fred looks at a bronze statue of Captain George Vancouver
The Customs House
Funky 60s/70s modernist Bas-Relief on Boots the Chemist
Fred and Harry wander around in Primark
Harry in Marks and Spencer
Kings Lynn has an actual Wimpy
Another cobbled street, opposite the post office
The derelict Post Office building
An empty shop
The King John statue on New Conduit Street
Isobel in Starbucks
Fred gets a new case for his phone
The lights in the shop are so white that the outside looks orangey-yellow
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
A curious garage/shack
We head into Hunstanton town
The boys scope out Lego in the Pavillion Toymaster
A masked Fred looks over
Bright foil windmills
Some Carrstone shops and houses
The stone gives the town an almost Northern feel
Cheery butcher statue
Sacks of potatoes outside a greengrocer
An old Victorian shop sign: C. W. Abbs
Another shop retaining its original glasswork
The Hunstanton public Library
Kids lob bread at the gulls
Someone takes their tractor out for a spin
The functional-looking Waterside Bar
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The view from our apartment bedroom window
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