We're on our annual holiday in Norfolk, staying at a cottage in Happisburgh (pronounced Haisbro), accompanied for the first part of the week by our friend Dave.
It rained on Saturday night, so we should have known better than to choose a walk along the North Walsham and Dilham Canal, with an elevation of around 2 metres above sea level.
A lot of the route was squidgy underfoot. Some of it was ankle deep and wading was unavoidable. The diversion to see the weir was worse than that, and we opted out from that.
As we got close to the end, and were looking forward to putting on dry shoes, the public path crossed an enclosure containing a large number of cows with young calves. Several of the cows were bellowing aggressively. Anyone who's walked with me will know that I'm not a great fan of livestock. There was no way I was going to walk through these cows. Rosie and Dave took no persuading to indulge in a mild trespass and skirt that enclosure. However, it did involve climbing a barbed wire fence that wasn't much fun.
View North Walsham and Dilham Canal in a larger map
It rained on Saturday night, so we should have known better than to choose a walk along the North Walsham and Dilham Canal, with an elevation of around 2 metres above sea level. A lot of the route was squidgy underfoot. Some of it was ankle deep and wading was unavoidable. The diversion to see the weir was worse than that, and we opted out from that.
As we got close to the end, and were looking forward to putting on dry shoes, the public path crossed an enclosure containing a large number of cows with young calves. Several of the cows were bellowing aggressively. Anyone who's walked with me will know that I'm not a great fan of livestock. There was no way I was going to walk through these cows. Rosie and Dave took no persuading to indulge in a mild trespass and skirt that enclosure. However, it did involve climbing a barbed wire fence that wasn't much fun.
View North Walsham and Dilham Canal in a larger map
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