March 2011

The Coastal Path and the marshes

We arrived in Blakeney just in time to park and catch the bus back to Wells. Today's aim was to walk from Wells (where we left our walk last year and where we started this Walking Boys episode) to Blakeney where we were booked in to the Kings Arms.

Bright and warm and a very pleasant walk to Stiffkey (pronounced stooky) this was part of the coast neither of us had walked before. Sadly neither Tim nor John could make this bit so Mark and I sallied on together. Someone has to keep the faith ....

So it was that, after negotiating the more obscure partsd of Wells (who, it seems do not love DEFRA) we had a latish lunch at the very attractive Red Lion at Stiffkey.

Here is a pub retrieved from being a private house and which seems to have left the beautiful worn wooden steps and floors and retained the character of a great public house, with its extraordinary history ....

and so we strode on to Blakeney, where we stayed at the King's Arms and had a boisterous Friday evening.