Six walkers and two dogs braved icy conditions to drive to Burnham Overy Staithe on the North Norfolk coast for the first walk of the new year – Steve and Ruth, Pam and Andy, Tristan and Sasha, and Susan and Finn. The first adventure was getting the coasthopper bus to Holme to the coastal path where we started our thirteen mile walk back to the cars at Burnham.
The walk started with a slippery scramble on the icy road down to the golf course and then followed a lovely walk along the boardwalk at the back of the sand dunes. The weather was gorgeous – blue skies and slightly warmer than we’d anticipated, which meant that layers were stripped off and put back on again all day. The boardwalk eventually gave way to a wooded area and a carpet of pine cones before we headed out to very muddy paths skirting the water’s edge.
Our catering corps were very well organised with Christmas cake and mulled wine breaks and the day passed by without incident.
This walk was intended to get us back into the swing of things because we had planned to complete a twenty-five mile challenge walk in the Brecon Beacons the following weekend. However, because of the weather warnings across Britain, it was decided mid week that we would cancel – we weren’t sure of our chances of reaching Wales and, even if we had, we were even less sure of our chances of ever leaving there again!
So disappointment with regard to Wales, but a brilliant day in North Norfolk instead.
Thursday, 7 January 2010
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