Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Exploring the Area
Barnes Brinkcraft,
Riverside Road, Wroxham (
&
01603/782625
), has day boats from
£14 an hour to £240 a week, with the prices rising in the high season. Alternatively, book
a tour with
Broads Tours,
near Wroxham Bridge, or in Potter Heigham (
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01603/
782207
or 01603/670722; www.broads.co.uk). Trips start at £7 for 1-hour trips.
Bewilderwood
AMUSEMENT PARK This is less a theme park than a
magical forest, with family adventures in tree houses, along rope bridges, and zip
wires, and with boat trips and walks in the marshes.
Horning Rd., Hoveton.
&
01603/783900.
www.bewilderwood.co.uk. Admission £11 adults, £8.50- £12
children depending on height (free for children under 1 m/3 ft.); £8.50 seniors. Daily Apr-Nov 10am-
5:30pm or dusk, plus Feb school holidays.
Fairhaven Woodland & Water Garden
GARDEN These wonderful gar-
dens are hidden among the trees and crisscrossed by little streams. They have an
amazing collection of spring-flowering candelabra primulas in late May and early
June, plus rhododendrons, azaleas, bluebells, and summer wildflowers. There's lovely
foliage later in the year.
School Rd., South Walsham.
&
01603/270683.
www.fairhavengarden.co.uk. Admission £5.50 adults,
£5 seniors, £3 children 5-15. Daily Mar-Nov 10am-5pm, Dec-Feb 10am-4pm.
The Museum of the Broads
MUSEUM Find out how the Broads have
shaped Norfolk's landscape and affected the lives of locals at this award-winning
museum, which has an exhibition of boats from the last 200 years, and boat trips
on the Victorian steam launch
Falcon
on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
from 11am to 3pm.
The Staithe, Stalham.
&
01692/581681.
www.museumofthebroads.org.uk. Admission £4 adults, £3.50
children 5-15, £10 family ticket. Boat trips £3.50 adults, £2.50 children. Daily Easter-Oct 10:30am-5pm.
Closed in winter.
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NORTH NORFOLK COAST
Hunstanton is 105 miles NE of London, 53 miles N of Cambridge
This low, beautiful stretch of beach, dunes, and marshes, interspersed with the
odd tourist town, is a world of its own. It's a place for walking and thinking, bird-
watching (whether you're an expert or not), and relaxing any time of year—on the
vast stretches of sands or in front of a log fire in one of the region's exceptional
small hotels. It can be entrancingly bleak in winter here (the wind whipping across
the north-facing sands), but there's a friendliness that goes with being in a far-
flung outpost of the country.
Essentials
GETTING THERE
Trains leave London's Liverpool Street Station for Norwich,
where you can catch the Bittern Line to Cromer and Sheringham. Trains leave Lon-
don's Kings Cross for Kings Lynn (hourly), takes 1 hour and 35 minutes and costs
£30. The
Coasthopper bus
(
&
01553/776980;
www.coasthopper.co.uk) runs
between Cromer and Hunstanton (and onto Kings Lynn) daily, half-hourly in sum-
mer, roughly hourly in winter. In addition to one-way and round-trip tickets, there are
a variety of passes including other buses and trains, and the 1, 3, or 5-day Coasthop-
per Rover; see website for details.
