This weekend we travelled over to the Norfolk Coast. Our first stop was Sandriam, the winter home of the Queen Mum. We drank tea at the tea room and set out to see the grand estate. But being that the Queen Mum herself was there we could not see the house or any of the grounds except for the gift shop. Outside of the giftshop was a lawn full of lollipop trees. I felt like Alice intruding in on the Queen of Heart’s garden and hoped to see someone painting the flowers red but no such luck.
Our next stop was at the lavender fields with rows of lavender and a shop full of everything possible made from lavender: beer, liquor, tea, scones, flour, soap…
From there we stopped along several different villages to shop and site see. There were surfers all along the beach. Since there were no waves the surfers used giant kites to pull them along the water. Lunch time concluded at a small pub for, of course, fish and chips. I was also tricked into eating a small complete fish that had been fried. (I ate bones, eyeballs the whole deal.)
Several towns later we stopped at friends for dinner and ate a gorgeous English dinner while jamming out to Queen.
Cheers!