Shopping for Broads

Sorry, that should read Shopping and Broads!

I needed to do some food shopping and, being only a few miles away, the obvious place was Roy's of Wroxham (or Woy's of Woxham as some of my friends call it). That done it was off to Wroxham Barns, a craft centre. Bit of a waste of time really, half the craft shops were shut and there was little of interest except a cup of coffee and a freshly baked scone.

Next stop, on what was always intended to be a shortish day, was The Museum of the Broads. Well worth a visit and good value for a fiver. It covers quite a lot of Broads history and, at the moment, has a special exhibition on brewing! Some interesting, and different, boats there including a couple I wasn't even aware of such as an airdrop lifeboat from the early part of WW2. They were literally slung under a plane and then dropped to downed aircrew to try and make their way back to the coast. The most frightening thing in my view was a large punt gun used for wildfowling. Before guns that size were banned it would take 1lb of gunpowder and 2lbs of shot, nails, etc.  to load it. When fired the punt would be sent up to 25 yards backwards with the recoil.

From there I popped in to Stalham, braving the chaos of the Tesco petrol queues and having a quick look round. After that it was back to the site for lunch and a relaxed afternoon. I'm now trying to work out if it's cooler inside the camper, where at least there's shade, or outside in what little breeze there is. It wouldn't be easy to organise on Dai but in the future I think a sunshade would be very useful.