Paul and Phil in the Fighting Cocks
Forest Park Camping and a Walk to Cromer, Northrepps, Norfolk - 10th June 2023
It's a return to Forest Park campsite, just outside Cromer on the North Norfolk Coast. We're only there for a couple of nights, the first of which involves a few games of Bingo down at the campsite's clubhouse. We miss out on getting tickets for the legendary Meat Raffle later on, but we do enter a quiz and finish a respectable mid table. The next day, we head off on a long but satisfying walk from the site to Cromer - it's only about three miles away, but it's a hard-enough walk along the clifftop. Once we get to Cromer, we stop off at the Red Lion at East Cliff for a pre-fish-and-chip beer. The pub/hotel is a revelation in that it has a staggering nine real ales on, and would have had ten if one hadn't run out. After that, there's a 1960s festival down at the pier, and then we're back in the clubhouse, where there's a singer with a backing track doing her thing. On the last morning, after we've packed up and left the site, we stop at West Runton beach so Fred can look for belemnites. The tide's in though, so there's not much to be found. Before all of that, on Thursday, the BSCC - Nosher, The Boy Phil and Paul - cycle out to the Fighting Cocks at Winfarthing, with a stop at Ampersand Tap on the way back.
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Paul gets the beers in
We head off back towards Diss
The old Green Dragon pub, near Winfarthing
Road Closed, except where it isn't
Paul checks his phone in Ampersand Tap
Fred says hello to Tilly Dog
Harry and Grace are playing bingo
Grace and Fred do a bit of Stick Game
The rest of the gang appear
Soph the Roph and Fred trudge off to do washing up
We're in the shop to get some baked products
We all head off on the long walk to Cromer
Invasive but attractive: rhododendrons on the path
We march past the remains of a railway bridge
Harry and Fred on Cromer golf course
Fred is the Pied Piper
There's a path made entirely of shells
Harry, Grace and Anna on the shell path
Fred sticks his arms up to avoid nettles
It's an almost tropical view, from high up
The low-rise Cromer lighthouse
Aieeee!
We pause for a break in a bandstand-like shelter
A group photo in the 'band stand'
It's the final push to Cromer
A view of Cromer and the pier
Cromer's church and the town's seafront buildings
There's a singing duo in a field
Fred, Grace and Soph do a bit of a dance
A view down to the sea
We walk round the back of the Red Lion
A Victorian building from 1898
Andrew in the main corridor through the Red Lion
The Red Lion has a staggering ten ales on
The front bar of the Red Lion in Cromer
Harry stands in the sun to warm up
Tilly Dog's got a funky hat on
Tilly gets some water from a beer barrel
Harry and Megan look at a fish tank
A phonebox with a phone still in it
The impressive Hotel de Paris
Cromer Pier
A classic Ford Capri
A rare 1960s diesel ambulance
It's Surfer Soup on Cromer beach
Isobel gets some caramelised almonds
Inside the 1960s ambulance
A lovely Riley Elf
Conversation by the sea wall
Harry and Isobel scope out a super-cute caravan
More classic 60s cars
Everyone peers over the promenade wall
Anna grabs a bit of flapping bunting
Biker boys with mopeds
We visit the No. 1 chipper on New Street
Fred and Grace wait for our order
Fred gets a photo of some cartoon characters
Megan and the gang hang around Coast Kebab
An old sign for Rose's Gowns and Millinery
A Victorian baptist chapel on Church Street
Some sort of derelict stage off Overstrand Road
It's a classic: an abandoned shopping trolley
Isobel hangs out by our pitch
Forest Park's clubhouse
It's busy in the clubhouse bar
Isobel and Tilly Dog
Tilly's got another hat on, and gets a cuddle
There's a derelict petrol station at West Runton
A very-wrecked petrol pump
A petrol pump has 4-star LRP petrol on it
Some sort of dodgy home-made car wash setup
Isobel's found a Thing on West Runton beach
Harry's found a small geode in a flint pebble
Water Mill Lane in West Runton
Harry on the path back to the car park
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Paul and Phil in the Fighting Cocks
Paul and Phil in the Fighting Cocks
Paul gets the beers in
We head off back towards Diss
The old Green Dragon pub, near Winfarthing
Road Closed, except where it isn't
Paul checks his phone in Ampersand Tap
Fred says hello to Tilly Dog
Harry and Grace are playing bingo
Grace and Fred do a bit of Stick Game
The rest of the gang appear
Soph the Roph and Fred trudge off to do washing up
We're in the shop to get some baked products
We all head off on the long walk to Cromer
Invasive but attractive: rhododendrons on the path
We march past the remains of a railway bridge
Harry and Fred on Cromer golf course
Fred is the Pied Piper
There's a path made entirely of shells
Harry, Grace and Anna on the shell path
Fred sticks his arms up to avoid nettles
It's an almost tropical view, from high up
The low-rise Cromer lighthouse
Aieeee!
We pause for a break in a bandstand-like shelter
A group photo in the 'band stand'
It's the final push to Cromer
A view of Cromer and the pier
Cromer's church and the town's seafront buildings
There's a singing duo in a field
Fred, Grace and Soph do a bit of a dance
A view down to the sea
We walk round the back of the Red Lion
A Victorian building from 1898
Andrew in the main corridor through the Red Lion
The Red Lion has a staggering ten ales on
The front bar of the Red Lion in Cromer
Harry stands in the sun to warm up
Tilly Dog's got a funky hat on
Tilly gets some water from a beer barrel
Harry and Megan look at a fish tank
A phonebox with a phone still in it
The impressive Hotel de Paris
Cromer Pier
A classic Ford Capri
A rare 1960s diesel ambulance
It's Surfer Soup on Cromer beach
Isobel gets some caramelised almonds
Inside the 1960s ambulance
A lovely Riley Elf
Conversation by the sea wall
Harry and Isobel scope out a super-cute caravan
More classic 60s cars
Everyone peers over the promenade wall
Anna grabs a bit of flapping bunting
Biker boys with mopeds
We visit the No. 1 chipper on New Street
Fred and Grace wait for our order
Fred gets a photo of some cartoon characters
Megan and the gang hang around Coast Kebab
An old sign for Rose's Gowns and Millinery
A Victorian baptist chapel on Church Street
Some sort of derelict stage off Overstrand Road
It's a classic: an abandoned shopping trolley
Isobel hangs out by our pitch
Forest Park's clubhouse
It's busy in the clubhouse bar
Isobel and Tilly Dog
Tilly's got another hat on, and gets a cuddle
There's a derelict petrol station at West Runton
A very-wrecked petrol pump
A petrol pump has 4-star LRP petrol on it
Some sort of dodgy home-made car wash setup
Isobel's found a Thing on West Runton beach
Harry's found a small geode in a flint pebble
Water Mill Lane in West Runton
Harry on the path back to the car park