Holme next the Sea to Burnham Overy Staithe

It was a beautiful sunny September Sunday, so we decided to walk the first proper leg of the Norfolk Coast Path. After some fairly complicated logistics we'd left Richard's car parked at Burnham Overy Staithe and returned to Holme in my car. The kiosk in the car park was open which meant that it cost £3 to park, but also that we got the ice-cream that we didn't get when we walked the final leg of the Peddars Way on Tuesday! We started walking around 11am, past the golf course at Holme, with the path still flooded in places because of this morning's extremely high tide. Then there was a lovely walk through the dunes (past the nature reserve behind Gore Point) and along the sea defences to Thornham.

There were morris dancers performing in Thornham and we walked along the main road for a short distance before turning inland - the path runs to the landward side of the RSPB reserve at Titchwell. According to the guidebook the minor road towards Choseley is a 'tedious uphill climb' but actually it was fine. We had lunch in a wood before following the hedge on a path running parallel to the coast but a couple of miles inland. We would agree with the book that there was some good walking in this stretch, and also along the lane down to Brancaster.

We continued along the path to Burnham Deepdale (we didn't know it at the time, but more recently we have discovered the delights of the Deepdale Cafe here) then onto the coastal defences again in a broad sweep past Burnham Norton to the windmill to the west of Burnham Overy Staithe, and along the road to the village. It's a pretty little place and we had another ice-cream; we could hardly ignore an ice-cream van owned by 'H.Jordan'!

Following leg of path