Jayne’s Travels

  September 27-29 A quiet weekend and a Monday adventure. Saturday we went to Pensthorpe - A charitable Conservation Trust, Gardens.ponds, wildlife and bird life, plus sculptures Was nice to have a wander around a small portion of the total of 700 acres. Ronda volunteers here doing some gardening, so we got in for nix. This would have been my favourite sculpture that we saw, a few others were mosaic glass and perhaps a little bit bling in the garden space. Some wildflowers below in the millennium garden. I was keen to see the cranes and flamingos, got a photo of two out of the three species, unfortunately the one with the spikes crown was hiding behind vegetation. Then there were the flamingos, this is the time when you need a proper camera, but still a joy to see them. Apparently one of the original ones is over 50 years old, who knew they can live that long? We walked further around towards a more wooded area with some more subtle sculptures. Very beautiful grounds, but we were f...

  Thursday 25th Time for an Adventure  Ronda, Tim her partner and I set out just before ten in the morning, a perfectly civilised time, for the coast. We stopped at the lovely cafe at Creake that we had visited the day before for a top up of coffee for some and a chai latte for me. Thus fortified we (Ronda) drove to Burnham Overy Staithe parking by the boathouse where Tim used to work and they both lived when first coming to Norfolk. it’s a little cloudy and a bit more windy but the view is spectacular looking over the salt marshes, the tide was on it’s way out as this area can be totally underwater at high tide, the tidal range Tim said is about 9 metres. There is a high path out to the beach which we walked. If you look closely there is a snowy white egret in the bottom right hand corner. and below looking back down the path to where we came from the long white building is the boat house. A beautiful if rather chilly walk along the path to the sand dunes and finally the sea ...