We had already decided that today would be a cycling day. We started late morning and headed for the coast at Trimingham.
Our lunch stop was at Mundesley where we had a little walk on the beach.
We also came across a windmill seeing that we had considered going to Holland it seemed appropriate to include the picture.
There was a monument for the people who had died clearing mines from the shoreline since the 2nd World War.
Our next stop was at the church at Happisburgh where I read the story of the sinking of HMS Invincible in 1801 of the coast. It had 600 crew and only 190 survived including Admirals Parker, Nelson and Totty. I thought it must have been top brass heavy! On this occasion Nelson didn't say "kiss me Totty'!
Apparently 140 of the deceased were buried in the churchyard...and incidentally they didn't bury the survivors at all.
Our end destination on the coast was Eccles-on-Sea because Janice was born at Eccles, Manchester. When we got there it was like a shanty town. I thought that it had become a migrant camp just like Calais. It had no shops and no tarmaced roads. Never mind, we turned inland and returned via North Walsham for a coffee and cake.
The cycling in this part of the world is lovely. Apart from it being fairly flat, the lanes are quiet and the villages lovely. The houses are made from either a nice warm red brick or have flint stone walls and red tiled rooves.
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