Norwich; Thursday, 03 June, 2010

Not quite as early a start as yesterday, but in a repeat it was back down to the station and onto the train. This time it was out to Great Yarmouth.

I walked from the train station down to the sea front, and was just in time to catch the first open-top tour of the morning round the town. I did a full circuit and then came back into the town centre to start making my way through the museums.

I walked down some of the little lanes (called Rows in Great Yarmouth) to the South Quay and started working my way down the quay on an attraction crawl. First up was the Lydia Eva steam boat, then onto the Elizabethan house and the Greyfriars’ Cloisters ruins. Next up were the Row 111 and Merchants houses before finally stopping at the Time and Tide museum in the former Herring smoking plant.

Despite being closed for nearly 30 years the Herring plant still had a pretty impressive fishy smell, showing how much it had permeated the brickwork of the building, and on a hot sunny day, it was coming out just that little bit extra.

From the museum I jumped back on the bus and caught it out to Scroby Sands at the top end of the beach to have a wander through the dunes, before catching the land train back into the centre of town and stopping for a very late lunch.

After lunch I hopped on a bus out to the ruins of a former Roman Fort just north of Great Yarmouth in Caister. Having looked round the ruins it was back onto the bus into town and a wander around the church yard of the big church, St Nicholas. I had intended on looking around inside, but I arrived 15 minutes after they had locked up for the day.

Then it was time to wander back to the station to catch the train back to Norwich, dinner and well-earned rest.