{"id":158,"date":"2012-01-21T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-07-08T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:28:38","slug":"grand-norfolk-hike-stage-3-thornham-to-burnham-overy-staithe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/01\/grand-norfolk-hike-stage-3-thornham-to-burnham-overy-staithe\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 4: Thornham to Burnham Overy Staithe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked this, the fourth stage of my\u00a0<a title=\"More info on the hike\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=78\">Grand Norfolk Hike<\/a>, on Saturday 14th January 2012.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164\" style=\"width: 612px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164\" title=\"lunapic_132718062145241_1\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lunapic_132718062145241_1.gif\" alt=\"Route of the hike\" width=\"612\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lunapic_132718062145241_1.gif 612w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lunapic_132718062145241_1-300x168.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Route of the hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?page_id=149\">You can see a map of the hike so far<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So&#8230;this stage was a little odd in that I didn&#8217;t actually get to be near the sea. \u00a0I saw it, sure, but I didn&#8217;t get that close to it. \u00a0Never mind, it was still a great hike. \u00a0For part of the journey I was joined by my old pal Seamus and his boy Louis.<\/p>\n<p>I met them in Brancaster where I had been having a cup of tea in the porch of the fine old village church.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brancaster church\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Wj2xM7tSzWw\/Txsp5j0cCnI\/AAAAAAAAAvg\/T2pEXIhD6zg\/s640\/DSCN1060.JPG\" alt=\"Brancaster church\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brancaster church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We walked on down to the harbour and on out over the marshes.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Me at Brancaster harbour\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-BxLH9hKcZ-Y\/Txsp21pJW4I\/AAAAAAAAAvY\/CqHyYcfl_Mk\/s640\/DSCN1061.JPG\" alt=\"Me at Brancaster harbour\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at Brancaster harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seamus and Louis had to leave me after a couple of hours of very enjoyable walking and chatter. \u00a0It was great to have other people with me on the hike and I really hope that other friends and family will join in on the fun (it is fun!).<\/p>\n<p>I carried on over the marshes, listening to and watching huge groups of geese flying in formation and making one hell of a racket.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I reached\u00a0Burnham Overy Staithe but sadly did not have enough money on me for a pint at The Hero (named after Nelson, a local boy) pub by the bus stop. \u00a0The bus arrived and I fell promptly asleep, waking in King&#8217;s Lynn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked this, the fourth stage of my\u00a0Grand Norfolk Hike, on Saturday 14th January 2012. You can see a map&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[34,32,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}