Norfolk weekend

My ex’s parents lived in Norfolk and i spent a lot of time travelling along the bouncy roads through the county. The land is flat, low lying, liable to flooding, and subsidence and newly laid roads soon reflect the subsidence. The big skies and straight roads always reminded me of the reflective Springsteen album, Nebraska and this image from 2006, when I had just turned 40, was a cap-doff to the original artwork of the album cover.

All of which is a long way round to discuss a short weekend in Norfolk I went to celebrate my 60th trip round the sun. The weather was misty which suits the landscape.

I stopped on the way to Wells Next the Sea to look at a drainage channel that ran across the fields just inland behind a campsite.Much of the Fens and East Anglia are sufficiently low lying that drainage is essential to keep the agricultural land workable.

In Wells Next the Sea I made a few images at the harbour as early morning draymen and food delivery folk resupplied the cafes and bars that run along the harbourside.

We also stopped into Brancaster where the raised sides of a dyke offers dry paths between places villages.