Thursday 12th December 2019

It was cold in the night at West Runton. After a sunny start it soon clouded over. Here's the beach with the public conveniences on the right. Handy for emptying our toilet.

Looking back up from the slipway.

We came a short way inland to a garage selling LPG. We took on 27.5 litres 8 days after we last filled our tanks so we have been using about 3.5 litres a day which is a lot but that's what happens when you have the heating on for long periods. We moved on to NT Blickling Hall.

 It was raining heavily so instead of doing the gardens and the estate we went inside the hall.

I'm not over keen about the inside of stately homes at the best of times. However this one was worse than usual as it was jam packed with Christmas decorations which to some extent obscured the artefacts.

One of the Hall's previous occupants had been the British Ambassador to Russia. These are perhaps souvenirs of his time there.

  

Russian Dolls.

This is supposed to be a model of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. It's in the middle of the dining table!

I'm not sure where these giant eggs are from.

Here we are down in the servants area.

The master bedroom perhaps. Note the ghostly figures on the right!

An all mod cons bathroom. I don't think the toilet is of the flush variety.

The NT staff seemed to have a 2nd World War theme to their Christmas decorations.

Eventually we exited back into the rain through the gift shop.

What about this for a hedge?

We travelled back to the coast and stopped for the night at the Never Turn Back pub in Caister on Sea. The Landlord was very welcoming - not surprising really as we were more of less the only customers this evening.

It's an okay pub - close by the sea.

We had some food and some beer - very nice and reasonably priced. Back at the van the BBC Exit Poll predicted a large Tory majority in Parliament following today's General Election. I went to bed in disgust!

Today we travelled 47 miles (76 kilometres). We are at N52.64942 E1.73355

Caister on Sea       Street view