A Bus Trip to Wells Next the Sea, Norfolk - 28th May 2026

It's Day Two of the birthday weekend at the Red Lion in Cromer, and we get the CH1 Coast Hopper bus over to Wells Next the Sea for a look around as well as another trip on the 1959 Leyland Tiger bus which the does the round-trips to the beach and back. Then, we wander back on the CH1 with a stop-off at the Fishing Boat in East Runton - the one with the nice "secret" beer garden - for a couple of pints. After that, we round out the evening with Fish and Chips from No.1 chippy on the cliff top above the pier.

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Cromer Pier early in the morning

Cromer Pier early in the morning

The Red Lion Hotel and Tucker Street in Cromer

A fishing boat with a cloud of seagulls

The awesome bar of the Red Lion

We're on the Coast Hopper bus

Jicklings Yard in Wells Next The Sea

A pub chef hauls spuds around

Crabbers on Beach Road

More crabbing action in Wells Next the Sea

Boats on the East Fleet estuary

A George Rex post box on Staithe Street

Walsingham And Son hardware on Staithe Street

A grumpy gargoyle watches the tourists

The granary building in Wells

The tide is out on East Fleet estuary

The 1959 Leyland Tiger is doing the rounds again

It's fairly busy on Wells beach

A red-and-white striped former sea buoy

The Leyland Tiger arrives at the beach end

Isobel outside John's Rock Shop

A very pretty bus stop near Stiffkey

Cows are out on the salt marshes

The Coast Hopper party bus is fairly full

A field of red poppies

The Weybourne village sign

The remains of Weybourne Priory

A much more modern church: St. Andrew's Methodist

Butterflies in the beer garden of the Fishing Boat

Isobel returns from a mission to find beer

On High Street in East Runton

A closed-up coffee shop in East Runton

The CH1 bus rolls into Cromer

Another George Rex postbox

An antiques/bric-a-brac market on Prince of Wales

The mad 1970s extenion on Le Moon

We wander up New Street

An ice-cream-licking cow on New Street

The roofs and chimney stacks of Cromer

The back door of Hotel de Paris

Looking up Tucker Street to the Red Lion

The grand staircase of the Red Lion Hotel

An old wrought-iron Red Lion sign

Coloured glass in the hotel windows

It's all very pink by an ice-cream shop

We get fish and chips at No. 1

Looking up at the Red Lion from the promenade

Isobel looks out over the promenade wall

One of many Fordson Major tractors on the sea front

A tractor on a hill

More tractors near the pier

A view from the cliff top

Back in the bar of the Red Lion