There's broken glass at Gridserve in Norwich
A Birthday Trip to the Red Lion Hotel, Cromer, Norfolk - 27th May 2026
By way of a birthday treat, Isobel has sorted out a couple of nights at the Red Lion in Cromer - the hotel on the clifftop that has a bar with some fourteen hand pumps, ten of which have real beer on. It also turns out that our room - the Billiard Room - is probably larger than the footprint of our entire house, and that the food is awesome, along with the views from the bar out over the sea. The hotel even provides binoculars, which come in handy as we watch the ships passing by.
previous album: A Birthday Lunch in Felixstowe, Suffolk - 26th May 2026
A view of the world through broken glass
Isobel comes out of Gridserve
The car gets a top-up before the drive to Cromer
A first view of Cromer pier from outside the hotel
The pier gift shop is getting a paint job
People on the very windy pier
Seagulls wheel around over the seafront
A view over the pier railings
Rusty parts of the pier are hauled away
The back streets of Cromer
The contents of a derelict shop window
Cromer's epically-towered church
Isobel in the nave of St. Peter and St. Paul
An impressive stained-glass window
More windows of stained glass
Some early-20th-century glass
Bright light from the clear windows along the aisle
Express News has an impressive home-made sign
A laughing butcher statue on the High Street
Cromer's Hotel de Paris
A payphone with an actual working phone in it
Some sort of derelict shop or café
Our epic suite: The Billiard Room
Nosher has a bath in the room
The view of the sea from the bar
The sky looks like an oil painting
Cromer lifeboat's crew does some training
The sun sets over Cromer pier
Surfing the wave, Cromer style
The sun goes down over the North Sea
Cromer pier in the dusk light
The pier and the Hotel de Paris
Cromer Pier and its Victorian ironwork
More of the sunset over the sea
Under the pier
The pier again
The moon rises over Cromer
Swirly steps and patterns in front of the pier
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There's broken glass at Gridserve in Norwich
There's broken glass at Gridserve in Norwich
A view of the world through broken glass
Isobel comes out of Gridserve
The car gets a top-up before the drive to Cromer
A first view of Cromer pier from outside the hotel
The pier gift shop is getting a paint job
People on the very windy pier
Seagulls wheel around over the seafront
A view over the pier railings
Rusty parts of the pier are hauled away
The back streets of Cromer
The contents of a derelict shop window
Cromer's epically-towered church
Isobel in the nave of St. Peter and St. Paul
An impressive stained-glass window
More windows of stained glass
Some early-20th-century glass
Bright light from the clear windows along the aisle
Express News has an impressive home-made sign
A laughing butcher statue on the High Street
Cromer's Hotel de Paris
A payphone with an actual working phone in it
Some sort of derelict shop or café
Our epic suite: The Billiard Room
Nosher has a bath in the room
The view of the sea from the bar
The sky looks like an oil painting
Cromer lifeboat's crew does some training
The sun sets over Cromer pier
Surfing the wave, Cromer style
The sun goes down over the North Sea
Cromer pier in the dusk light
The pier and the Hotel de Paris
Cromer Pier and its Victorian ironwork
More of the sunset over the sea
Under the pier
The pier again
The moon rises over Cromer
Swirly steps and patterns in front of the pier