Off Topic Well done Hull FC

I never saw any boarded up shops. It was an excellent day and night, when I went. Loads of decent boozers and restaurants in the city centre

 

Way too good for HIGNFY.

 

I went to Ipswich in the first promotion season and that was ****. Does that count?

 

I've been visiting Norfolk every year for the past 10 - it can be a complete **** of a place to drive to but, I think its worth the effort; I think Norwich is a really nice City with, according to Mrs Google, a brilliant shopping area. The North Norfolk coast is fantastic and has some great walks, foods good, beers good, the locals are ok too.

On a completely different tack, since I took early retirement four years ago, one of my new hobbies is researching the family tree and, surprise, surprise ..... my dads side of the family originate less than 10 miles from where I regularly stay. Life's as queer as **** eh?

 

It certainly is you bezzuck...

 

Yeah I've never been just quoting what somebody said earlier

 

Actually I have been but way to long ago to compare.
Seemed a very clean place I 'll give it that.

 

Norwich has two cathedrals.
Went to one on Sunday and thought it was one of the most stunning i have seen.

 

Why not? An event in Brandesburton was one of the best attended Hull, City Of Culture events and that symbol of Hull, the Humber Bridge is not in Hull.

Norwich is the 6th most visited city in England. One of the 5 in front of them isn't Hull. You have to wonder why so many people choose to visit a city with boarded up shops and nothing to do.

 

Make your mind up.

 

Thats amazing. I have been visiting Norfolk this week because i found out my paternal grandmothers father came from Bergh Apton a village a few miles south of Norwich.

 

Just out of interest where did you find that Norwich is the 6th most visited city? my google search is only coming up with international visitor numbers and unsurprisingly Norwich is not even in the top 20.

 

My paternal great g'father hailed from Weybourne, which is about 10 miles East from Cromer - in that area in the late 1800''s most working families were either working on the land or were fishermen; it's not a great leap to see catches being landed in Hull. One thing though, I'm really pleased that my great g'father landed his catch in Hull and not Grimsby

 

Remember reading it in some article about Norwich being voted in the top 10 destinations for shopping (amazing for somewhere with loads of boarded up shops). That refered to it 5 or 6 years ago but just googled it and this article intheir local paper quoting a study which had been made more recently came up.

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news...gures-show-increase-in-day-visitors-1-3960368

The most visited cities for day visitors were London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich. I would have thought York would have been up there myself.

 

Off to Winterton On Sea in September. Local pub looks okay but any recommendations for places to eat or places to see which are not the most publicised ones?

 

That list is of overseas visitors who are staying. Not day visitors.

 

Oooh, ooh, a chance for an old joke.

Lad from Norfolk gets married, but on the wedding night, his dad gets a knock on the door, and finds his son standing there crying.

"I've left her dad" he says, "She's just told me she's a virgin".

"Ah" says pop, "You've done the right thing. If she's not good enough for her family, she's not good enough for ours".

 

I've had coffee in W'ton on Sea, but that's my lot, in the hour we spent there and driving through it looked a really nice, picturesque place. We generally only do the North Coast, I think it'd be safe to say that we haven't had a meal so bad to be memorable - the food has ranged from 'good' to 'downright brilliant'. The celebrity chef, Galton Blackiston does high end, Michelin starred tucker for £70/80 pp, as a one off treat it's nothing short of superb, he also has a high-end chippy in Cromer, it's very good but, you can get the same, or better, for less; if you get to the North Coast and you don't want to shell out as much as that there's a crab shop with a cafe attached called Cookies, at Salthouse, it's the most rustic, no-frills, no airs and graces place you'll ever eat but, you'll struggle to eat better for double the price, he gets his fish/crab/lobster from 500 yards away and doesn't mess with it .... an awesome place. You can get a fantastic crab salad sandwich from virtually any cafe, Norfolk's a great place if you're of a certain age, West from Gt Yarmouth there's bugger all for teenagers (which some may say is a good thing).