I went on a group holiday with my parents and a bunch of
other people. We stayed in a youth hostel in Sheringham
in North Norfolk.
Sheringham
Sheringham is a British seaside town complete with
fish-and-chip shops, amusement arcades, and rain. (These
pictures were taken on the day we arrived.)
My mother enjoying the balmy English sunshine.
1/60 at f5.6, 30mm, ISO200
A wind shelter on the cliff (might be more effective had
fewer windows been smashed).
1/90 at f8, 30mm, ISO200
Coloured beach huts and coloured lights on the promenade.
1/4 at f1.4, 30mm, ISO400
Wells
There are a gazillion places called Wells in the UK (plus one
rather larger one called Wales), but this one was actually
quaintly called 'Wells next the Sea'. How sweet. This was on
the first full day of the holiday.
The church had a nice chest.
1/30 at f1.4, 30mm, ISO800
After drinking hot chocolate in a tearoom while waiting for
a downpour to end, we went out along the long harbour wall
(about half a mile) to the beach around the end of it.
A boat moored in Wells Harbour.
1/350 at f4.5, 30mm, ISO100
A fence on the beach.
1/180 at f5.6, 30mm, ISO100
Moat.
1/125 at f11, 30mm, ISO200
A bizarre bunker - in between many, many beach huts that
were individually made and rather more impressive than
Sheringham's. And actually on the beach.
1/750 at f5.6, 30mm, ISO200
Really cool sandbank that becomes an island at high tide.
1/350 at f11, 30mm, ISO200
Public toilets in a strip of woodland behind the beach.
Almost every brick had a different name on it.
1/350 at f2.8, 30mm, ISO200
Eastward
After the delights of Wells, we struck out eastward along
the coast path, which is a waymarked route. It doesn't
actually go along the coast here; there are wide
tidal marshes between the path and the sea.
Yay, mud.
1/180 at f9.5, 30mm, ISO200
Toxic waste.
1/250 at f6.7, 30mm, ISO200
A road leading to the horizon (probably not a good route
at high tide).
1/125 at f9.5, 30mm, ISO100
Mmm! Smells sewage-fresh! (Okay, actually it didn't smell of
anything from there - still, cool pipe.)
1/500 at f8, 30mm, ISO200
Somewhere else
OK, I can't actually remember the name of the place we reached
in the end and where we waited for a bus. It had a church though
with a few interesting features.
