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Norfolk, UK - elaine - Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 : goo
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time was, when i ran a car that this was all very easy. now it's a job and a half, but my compusion to gain access to this beach is so strong, and my friend jenny is so intrepid, that we have done this trip twice, now. first time in january, and then a couple of weeks ago.
she has a house near kings lynn. we went up by train from london, and in the morning got a lift into lynn. the buses are not particualrly integrated, and there are few of them, but the drivers are heroes. in january the driver got us on our bus home by cutting up the other bus so it couldn't move til we got on. that is service.
so you get this bus ticket 'coast hopper' and then it is laminated so it is like some fancy plane ticket. i like this combo of lo fi and snazzy. it suits my headspace
i will not bore you with endless pictures of this beach, because no matter how many pictures i took, nor how good a photographer i took with me to the beach, that would not be the point. i have been on this beach in all weathers, all times of year, and one day here is worth a fortnight anywhere. sometimes newspapers and magazines do features where it is picked as one of the top ten beaches in the world, and i panic in case too many people come here, but it is almost impossible for it to be ruined. it is massive, it is land managed so there are no ameneties, you can bring dogs and horses, but there are no toilets or anything for miles, and all the amusement arcades and so on are well catered for elsewhere. this is for toffs and nature lovers, and long may it remain so
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hasslehoff: 4th May 2005 - 10:59 GMT
heh, the coasthopper. you can catch that all the way up to sunny hunny i think. where i spent much of my childhood summers. there and heacham. We used to ride our bikes at great speed along the seafront from heacham, where our grandparents owened a static caravan on one of the many grotty caravan parks. It was called something ironic like paradise beach or something. I don't think they allow cycling on the promenade anymore. Something about health and saftety.
elaine: 4th May 2005 - 12:45 GMT
you can go for miles, as long as you don't mind if you don't come back..is the only thing, it's a very scant service. i first went to holkham because my ex, j remembered it from his childhood holidays. we stayed in b&b at welles next the sea where i played my first shoot em up video game, and killed all my friends as well as my enemies, and we ate fantastic seafood. after we split up i kept going back
Peter: 4th May 2005 - 13:13 GMT
yay beaches... i really wanna go to the shore this summer, like every weekend!
Diane: 4th Oct 2005 - 16:15 GMT
Going for the first time this weekend for my 50th birthday - can't wait! (though I'd sooner forget about the advancing years) Goodbye land-locked Leicester.
elaine: 4th Oct 2005 - 16:37 GMT
diane, you will love it. a day on that beach is worth a fortnight anywhere else, and i have been there in all weathers, and it is just as beautiful. my advice? take or buy wellies
jean: 13th Nov 2005 - 19:05 GMT
i live in Wells-next-the-Sea and i go to Holkam Beach with Frances and Angel nearly every day. It is different every time. The big sky and the light are the best in england. Go on Wells-next-the-Sea website and book yourself a winter break now
Peter: 17th Apr 2008 - 01:17 GMT
i never made it to the shore in summer 05. come to think of it, i havent been down the shore since, shit, 2001? wow. thats the jersey shore
. i mean, ive been to coney island more times than i can count since then. must do more beaches this summer... perhaps ill hit up orchard beach, new york or jones beach state park...
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