It seems that flattery motivates contributors, at least 39 Pontiac Dream/Always a Kid for Today/Mike Fahey, who has sent along some lovely photographs of a recent trip he and his significant other took to Blakeney and the Morston Marshes, both places with distinctly British names.
I won’t offer much more by way of preamble, and instead have included the body of Ponty’s e-mail to me, which explains a bit more about the pictures in detail.
They remind me a great deal of the salt marshes around Beaufort, South Carolina, and the outlying barrier islands on the way to Fripp Island.
But enough from me. Here’s Ponty:
Hiya Tyler,
As promised, below are some of the pictures I took of our walk on Friday.
You might remember that I said we were going to Holkham Nature Reserve? Well, that didn’t quite pan out. As we were about to enter the last stretch, we found that the road had been closed. Turning around, I went around another route and found that road had been closed. Not knowing the area well enough and having exhausted our fuel consumption due to some really bad driving, I turned the car around, essentially because I had no idea how long the diversion would be. When we returned home, I checked and berated myself – it was only a few minutes long! D’oh! Well, better to be safe than sorry.
Anyway, we decided not to stay in Wells-Next-The Sea because it was too packed. Even on a sunny though cold Spring afternoon, visitors were piling in in their droves, so we continued, eventually stopping at a village on the North Norfolk coast called Blakeney. After parking up and popping for a quick pint/toilet break, we started walking around the North Norfolk Circular and Morston Marshes, a vast and very open path taking in, for the most part, wide open skies and loads of creeks, ponds, dunes, and deserted, cast off boat wrecks. We only walked around half of it before heading back, due, in part, to being nagged like billy ho by Tina – ‘my ears are cold, it’s freezing, I hate walking!’ I tell you, my ears were hurting when we got back to the car and it had nothing to do with the cold! 🙂
I apologise that some of these pictures – who am I kidding, most of these pictures! – are from a distance but when the mood arises, we’ll go back there and I’ll get a much better collection. Holkham too – that has a lovely stretch of coast.
Regards[,]
Mike
The Portly Politico 
Fun pictures, 39. Tell me – is ‘Wells-Next- the Sea part of that Wells in Somerset?
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No. There are a few Wells across the country. The Wells in Somerset isn’t too far away from the West coast but the one in Norfolk sits in a bubble of gorgeous countryside and wide beaches.
There are a lot of decent walks on the North East coast. Well worth visiting.
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Wells, Somerset where I live is a very long and tedious drive from Wells-Next-The-Sea Audre. Our bit of coastline alongside the Bristol Channel is unspectacular unlike the Norfolk coast as shown in Mike’s pictures. Those sweeping vistas are gorgeous. I would enjoy seeing that. Near the top of my list of places to visit in Britain which I have never seen (which is nearly everywhere) is Aldeburgh in Suffolk – the county adjacent to Norfolk – onetime home of composer Benjamin Britten and his lover, the singer Peter Pears. Again, a coastline very different from that of both my adopted home in Somerset but also from my REAL home, Wales.
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(side eye) You made those names up, didn’t you?
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😂
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Living on a large island, how far do you reckon anyone is from the coast at any given time? Put another way, what is the most inland point—the point furthest from the coast—in England?
We have some beautiful coasts here in South Carolina. Audre can speak to the quality of Florida’s beaches, I’m sure. I’ll have to snap some photographs the next time I am down in Beaufort, but who knows when that might be.
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There is some confusion about where the central point of Britain is as of course we a big island with lots of little islands off the coast. I would not think that even in central landlocked main island Britain you would be further than eighty miles from the sea, maybe less.
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Yes, makes sense. I like the idea of being so close to water at any given point.
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Flattery (chuckle). 🙂
I’m glad TCW’s resident pest, Telemachus, doesn’t visit this site. He already thinks I’m all ego. 🙂
Cheers for putting these up, Port. I’ll send more as and when I can.
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Telemachus, you say? I’d love to see some more controversy in the comments section. What good is a blog without backbiting and bitter recriminations?
Or we could continue with our usual pleasant discourse and sharing of YouTube links.
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You don’t want Telly. Some reasoned disagreement is always welcome, but that has nothing to do with him/her/it, he’s all about supercilious arrogance hiding stupidity.
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Yeah, definitely don’t want that. But now that we’ve spoken his name, will he show up, like Bloody Mary or the like?
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Ditto Neo.
Disagreement can be good, yes, but with tele, you’ll get more than you bargained for. This is a guy who thinks that Stalinism was a good thing and should be repeated. Some of his comments are abhorrent. He’s a clickbait specialist. I blocked him months ago.
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“This is a guy who thinks that Stalinism was a good thing and should be repeated.” Wow. That tells you everything you need to know right there.
If he pops up here, I’ll block him.
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Lovely pictures, makes me want to visit. Thank you.
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No worries. 🙂
I’ll try to get some more up of the Norfolk countryside and coastline. Maybe some of the many pubs along the route too.
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That sounds like a lovely trip, one that _The Portly Politico_ would love to share with its readers. Keep the photo essays and travelogues coming, Ponty!
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I had the same thought, Lindy.
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Indeed, Lindy. It’s been on my list for a dozen years, as has a trip on its narrow gauge railroad.
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Ooooh, a narrow gauge railroad. That also sounds quite fun.
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Frin Wekks Next the Sea to Great Walsingham if I rememberm next door to Little Walsingham, England’s Bethlehem and the 2d most visited pilfrimage site in England, before the Reformationm and still pretty busy.
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Very cool. I’d love to visit all of these charmingly-named locations at some point.
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