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What I did on my holidays, part one

I'm just back from a week in Cromer, and a week-end in York. Both very enjoyable, though the weather was a bit iffy at the start of the week. Anyway, I thought I would just record a few of the places we visited or ate at, in the vague hope that it might be useful to anyone going to those places. You can assume anywhere we ate takes children, because we were travelling as a family.

We set off for Cromer on Saturday 8th from Cambridge. We stopped for lunch on the way at a pub called The George & Dragon at Newton by Castle Acre, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE23 2BXTel/Fax: 01760 755046. Food was good, and they didn't quibble when I complained that the beer didn't taste right, just went off and changed the barrel. I'm not saying it deserves special praise, but it's a good sign.

In Cromer we stayed in a rented cottage at a place called The Grove (95 Overstrand Road, Cromer, NR27 0DJ. 01263 512412). There's a guest-house too which is fine, but we found that last year it was hard to have any evening to ourselves if we stayed there, so this time we self-catered, and it worked out much better. No complaints about either the guest-house or the cottage, and the setting is really nice - it's a little bit out of town, but you can walk there in less than 10 minutes, and there's also a footpath up to the cliffs, where I did a couple of good little runs.

As I said, the weather was not so good in the early part of the week: we stayed in Cromer on Sunday, and went to Norwich on Monday. Norwich was nice, I recommend the castle as a place to visit.

Tuesday we went to Sheringham, and stopped on the way at the Priory Maze and Gardens which is pretty much what you'd expect. Bit pricey for what it is, especially as the gardens aren't really in full bloom yet, but our daughter enjoyed running in the maze. We had lunch at The Lobster, which has a nice quiet back-room for families. I think there was a beer garden, but it was too cold that day. The grown-ups food was good, but the fish fingers were not so great. Not bad overall though.

More later when I can be bothered to write it.

Update 04.06.02: Part two is now up.

Posted by MFreestone at May 19, 2004 10:59 PM