{"id":386,"date":"2012-03-31T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-07-08T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:27:24","slug":"grand-norfolk-hike-stage-11-burnham-overy-staithe-wells-next-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/03\/grand-norfolk-hike-stage-11-burnham-overy-staithe-wells-next-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 11: Burnham Overy Staithe &#8211; Wells-next-the-Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jo and I walked this, the 11th stage of my\u00a0<a title=\"More info on the hike\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=78\">Grand Norfolk Hike<\/a>, on Saturday 25th\u00a0March 2012.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-389\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lunapic_13330136919969_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-389\" title=\"Burnham to Wells\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lunapic_13330136919969_1.gif\" alt=\"Burnham to Wells\" width=\"515\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lunapic_13330136919969_1.gif 515w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lunapic_13330136919969_1-300x253.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burnham to Wells<\/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>After a long, and rather fraught journey to the coast, we disembarked the Coasthopper at\u00a0Burnham Overy Staithe and made our way down to the beach.<\/p>\n<p>And what a place it is, miles of sandy beach, dunes, woods and with hardly any other people about. All our stresses and worries dropped away, it was lovely.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin on Holkham beach\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-J7dq6R4qg4Q\/T28m5GJTIsI\/AAAAAAAABc8\/bPIRbGujBbA\/s640\/Copy%2520of%2520DSCN1382.JPG\" alt=\"Martin on Holkham beach\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin on Holkham beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jo decided to go for a dip in the Wash, she lasted ten minutes before coming out, &#8216;too cold for a spring swim&#8217; she announced. \u00a0Fair enough.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jo going for a dip in the Wash\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-eRzguTQARc8\/T28nIXoAUjI\/AAAAAAAABds\/j_NJkQnZsBo\/s640\/DSCN1383.JPG\" alt=\"Jo going for a dip in the Wash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jo going for a dip in the Wash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We walked at a leisurely place up the beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On a Holkham sand dune\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-wOe2LiMMUQ8\/T28m8zz-FAI\/AAAAAAAABdM\/HQ7muIIGJI0\/s640\/Copy%2520of%2520DSCN1385.JPG\" alt=\"On a Holkham sand dune\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a Holkham sand dune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>and admired the beach huts at the foot of the wood.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beach huts\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-oqCo_qVR018\/T28m0hH90KI\/AAAAAAAABcs\/Vb0RfuZ_0xs\/s640\/Copy%2520of%2520DSCN1388%2520%25281%2529.JPG\" alt=\"Beach huts\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach huts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We decided to head into the wood itself.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The pine forest at Holkham\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-wfFQWmC93BU\/T28nAAdP6dI\/AAAAAAAABdU\/rb4CHvD3HAc\/s640\/Copy%2520of%2520DSCN1387.JPG\" alt=\"The pine forest at Holkham\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pine forest at Holkham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We finally arrived at Wells just in time for a bag of chips each before catching the bus back to King&#8217;s Lynn.<\/p>\n<p>A fine days walk in the most beautiful of countryside, and all in the\u00a0company of my wonderful wife, Jo. \u00a0<strong>Perfect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo and I walked this, the 11th stage of my\u00a0Grand Norfolk Hike, on Saturday 25th\u00a0March 2012. You can see a&#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\/386"}],"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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}