Sheringham

We went to the seaside town, Sheringham, Norfolk. I'd wanted to go north. I like Norfolk. We've been to Cromer but the first time to Sheringham. We change a train at Colchester and Norwich, it was about 3 hours train trip.



We got off a train and walked towards the sea. Sheringham is very attractive town. There's no Costa, Nero, Starbucks nor MacDonald. Local shops, cafes and pubs stand along the main street.
 
 
 
We got a fish chocolate. The John Bull seems not Sheringham's local shop but there are many interesting yummy sweets.
 

The North Sea!!!





But our destination was not a seaside. We headed to Upper Sheringham, inland small village. Walked, walked and walked for approximately 30 minutes.
 


Passed a high school and fields. As we surmounted the hill, a lovely village came in sight.


This is Upper Sheringham. The buildings using round stones are feature of Norfolk. When I stepped into the village, I felt as if I slipped back in time or in a different world like wonderland.


 


The hotel we stayed is the country house hotel 'The Dales'. It was a great hotel. It became one of my best hotels I ever stayed in the UK! Staffs were so friendly, beautiful room, nice atmosphere and delicious dinner and breakfast!!


Our room was above the entrance. There was a teddy bear on the bed. The name was Huggy, who was waiting adoption.


I felt comforted. The view from the  window was really beautiful.


In the evening, there was terrible thunderstorm. The lights in the room and TV went off for only a moment. After the dinner, we went outside and looked up at the sky. Sky was clear. We saw a lot of migrating birds were on the wing under a stadium of stars. It was so fantastic! This view gave me goose bumps!!

 
We waked up with a beautiful morning glow.

 
After we checked out, we went back to the Sheringham Station. Train on Sunday runs every 2 hours, so we walked around the town and relaxed in a cafe while we wait a train. It started raining outside.
 

 
When we went back to the station, a man informed us that there's no train today! 'What?' And also a replacement bus had just left a few minutes ago and next bus was two hours after!!! It was Sunday morning, most shops were closed. We'd already had coffee and hot chocolate, our stomach had no space for another coffee. Also it was raining. We decided to go back to Norwich by taxi!! Luckily we could get a taxi.
 
A trip on weekend sometimes has a trouble, especially in January, because engineering works are held here and there. My husband checked in advance about it on the website, but there was no information about a train between Sheringham and Norwich. Or just he missed it. There was no information at the Sheringham Station as well. If there was a note when we got off a taxi at a station, we could have gotten a bus. Well, well, well, what's done is done. A driver said it might be because of yesterday's lightning, and we thought it made sense. But we knew later that it was a usual engineering work. Anyway, we could enjoy different view from the taxi window.
 
All in all, it was a nice weekend trip:) We love to travel to remote place and January is the best month to enjoy the thick silence and winter's beauty. We were lucky to find a nice hotel.

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