Category: WW2

Norfolk coastal beauty

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As you will know, I love the sea. I was told that the beaches in Norfolk were lovely, and they have been. One of the things that I have especially liked are the pebbles.

They don’t make for a good sandcastle building holiday but I love the variety of them, and the way that are used in all of the buildings. I have driven through so many villages full of these gorgeous flint and brick houses and churches.

I visited Snettisham RSPB reserve one very hot day, and met more Canada Geese than I have ever seen before.

I also went to Sheringham Park for a meet up with Jules, who I met last year at Hayfield. She has an identical van to mine, with a full conversion, and is still travelling full time, having extended her gap year. We had a brilliant time sharing the joys of van life.

I enjoyed my trips to Cromer and the Sheringham 1940s weekend as well. Loved the vintage adverts for Cromer and the pictures along the beach at Sheringham of the Victorian bathing tents.

Had a brilliant 40th anniversary of starting at Huddersfield Polytechnic weekend back in Yorkshire last weekend and then conquered three more motorways, so feeling very happy with all the driving so far.

Here am I with two lovely friends, Ange and Carol. It has been so good to meet up with people this summer, hadn’t seen Carol for about 25 years!

This will probably be the last update on the blog for a while. I am in the final week of the UK part of the adventure, and am now in Kent. Off to France and Spain next Saturday and I will be on the move so much then I will probably wait until I get back. I will post as much as possible on my Instagram @katykangoo, if you want to follow me there.

Many thanks as always for following my adventures. Have fun, take care, stay safe and thanks for visiting.

Attention to detail

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The thing that impressed us the most about the Yorkshire Wartime event that we visited was the superb attention to detail in all of the encampments. There were so many things to look at, from the period typewriters and beds to the maps, replicas of the Enigma machines, and the huge number of vehicles that were there.

This shows amazing dedication to the hobby, medieval re-enactment is an expensive hobby but we saw vehicles that were for sale for £45,000 and there is the cost of transporting, running and maintaining them as well.

There were such a wide variety of camps, from both sides of WW1 and WW2 as well as replicas of trenches, hospital stations, desert settings, such as lot of hard work had gone into the event and we really appreciated that. We had some lovely chats with people, especially with a group who had been excavating a WW1 training camp in North Wales and had so many original finds from the rubbish dump there.

There was also the battle with very impressive pyrotechnics that created this huge smoke ring in the sky, which lasted for ages,

There was also the chance to admire the camper vans and caravans as we stayed over in the public camping field, these were two of my favourite for their size and cuteness.

We also went to the Saturday night dance which was brilliant fun. A really lovely way to end my time with Ellen. As of this week I am on my four week camping tour, visiting Devon, meeting up with my sister Jacky for some time with her in her camper van, and then two weeks in West and North Wales which I am very much looking forward to.

I will try and post as much as I can, I have yet to work out how to do that on a tablet but have a few days in apartments in between the camping so when I have access to electricity I will see what I can do.

In the meantime I hope that you all have fun, take care, stay safe and thanks for visiting.