Flinty

 What country, friends, is this?

 Rolling surf, usually attended by intrepid surfers, even at eight in the morning?

Historic piers, offering surprising end of pier entertainments?

And, everywhere, locally caught sea-food, crabs a speciality.

This is the North Norfolk coast where we chose to holiday this year.  Last year, Vienna; this year, Cromer.

Very distinctive is the local building material: flint, here deployed in orderly rows.

And here, tightly packed together.

Sometimes, very small beach pebble was used instead.

Or, flakes of flint were tightly packed into the surface, as here: Flint House.

Imagine the labour involved in this technique, which we have only ever seen used to protect the mortar between larger building stone.

We had lovely, late summer weather all week which enabled us to see and do lots of things.  More later.