We awoke Sunday morning to beautiful sunny skies and they stayed sunny all day. It was quite warm when you were out of the wind, and we decided it would be a good day to give Hi Ho the day off and walk into Cromer for a look around. We started by having a nice breakfast of eggs, ham, and toast at home. The eggs here are fantastic – delicious with bright orange yolks.
We walked into town along the cliff, slowly descending to beach level in Cromer itself. We just walked around checking things out. I had a brief glimpse into Cromer Church (Anglican, of course) where Sunday services were about to start. Then we went out onto Cromer Pier for a looksee. There were lots of people dropping crab pots into the sea and getting plenty of crabs. Cromer is famous for its crabs. Midway on the pier there is a theater where they have live productions. It is famous for its summer show, but that’s not until late June and only has two performances. (A production of Sister Act is playing now. At the end of the pier is the RNLI Lifeboat Station.
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The Cromer RNLI Lifeboat Station is manned by 300+ volunteers, and a good many of them were on hand to welcome visitors and collect donations for the station. We chatted with many of them and enjoyed the visit. I bought an RNLI hat pin for my baseball cap. On most Sundays there is a practice launch at 10:30, but they skip it on long weekends, and this was a long weekend – Monday is a UK bank holiday. It would have been fun to see.
After that we walked about a bit more and stopped for a Cromer crab sandwich before returning to our lighthouse. The walk back was a bit more strenuous as it is all uphill back to the top of the cliff. I had a rest midway to contemplate the North Sea.
After a nap and an indoor cocktail hour, we got ready for dinner at the Grove Restaurant. It’s only a two minute drive from the lighthouse. We had prosecco in the bar where we placed our orders for dinner before being taken into the dining room. I had mackerel for my appetizer while Elaine had delicious soup. We both belly of pork for our main. For dessert Elaine had three chocolates while I had a cheese plate. The wine was a pinot noir from Chile.
Then it was home to bed after a long day. Elaine’s new Sony camera has a panorama feature where you can shoot panoramas. The camera does the work that usually requires post production software of stitching the shots together. Here are three examples of the Cromer seafront.
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Wonderful job, Admin, and the photos have all been outstanding. Beautiful trip, happy for you both … carry-on! 🥂🍾