Another overcast morning ...
Hamish and I went for a walk and he made a new friend ...
Looking back down to the water ...
I love this Broad ...
It was soon time to move on and as always I was sorry to leave this peaceful place behind ...
So motoring back downriver towards Horning we saw swans take flight ...
and a large construction next to the Sailing Club ...
It will be interesting to see what it looks like next spring when we return. These yachts were not out on hire at the moment ...
This is the finished house which we photographed back in April ...
What a difference after a few month's work ...
We were soon within sight of Ranworth ...
and luckily there was plenty of room for us on the Staithe ...
Hamish was looking forward to a walk and so we set off on the loop which takes us up to the church ...
This is just outside ...
and walking back down the little track ...
we could see the top of the church tower where we have climbed to in the past for the fabulous view of the Broad and surrounding countryside ...
Crossing a small bridge at the end of our walk I saw this chap standing as if a statue ...
Even with people passing quite close by he never moved and wasn't a bit afraid of them. We were now back by the Maltsters pub ...
with this lovely sign of the village opposite ...
Back to Capri and the Southern Comfort came past on one of her trips ...
We had planned to move on to St Benet's Abbey for the night but it began to drizzle with rain and became quite windy so the decision was made to stay put here. We had a lazy afternoon and in the evening we had a meal at the pub which was very enjoyable and it was dog-friendly which was great.
We'd packed a lot of our stuff into the RV last night but we still had food to sort and the bed to strip. It was parked up next to us and so loading it didn't take too long ...
I took Hamish for a walk around the yard and it was very peaceful so early ...
There was smoke coming from a chimney on a narrow boat so there were obviously some live-aboards ...
At 8am the staff begin the task of checking everyone off their boats and our fuel was checked to see how much we'd used of our £100 deposit.
We had a refund of about £71 but £50 of it went straight back to them as we booked our holiday for next April on Broadland Neptune again with the boys! The usual pattern of events on the last morning is a drive to Potter Heigham and breakfast at the cafe by the river. This time we had to change our plans as the cafe had closed only a week ago and the owners relocated to Ludham Bridge where they'll be opening next spring. We drove over Wroxham Bridge ...
and went to Tesco for breakfast and a top-up of food for the weekend. Then it was back on the road and heading for Buckinghamshire for a couple of nights. On the way we passed the Imperial War Museum Duxford ...
and after stopping briefly at Luton for lunch we were soon arriving at the Caravan Club site of Wyatts Covert at Denham Green. We set ourselves up on a pitch but the television reception was terrible and we couldn't get the satellite system to work! I deperately wanted to watch Strictly and after much fiddling with the aerial we finally found BBC1 and BBC2 so I said there was no way that the RV was moving now until we left the site on Sunday!!
