Day 43: Thetford to Diss

Another beautiful Spring Day! We are having our first night under canvas (well really ultra-light synthetic fabric but that doesn't sound as romantic) tomorrow: so what's the bet the weather will break and we'll   have rain lol. We set off this orning through Thetford (which we learned last night was the place the TV series Dads Army was filmed). And in the park there was a hillock which is the site of the earliest Norman castle in England.

We followed the roads out into the countryside and then followed the Peddars way 

through lovely woodland.

Then we walked through more agricultural land with the symmetrical beauty of the freshly furrowed fields.

Then back into the woodlands,

and onto the Angles Way.

Which led us past Riddlesworth Hall School.... not bad eh!

As we reached the Fen country we had our first glimpse of an East Anglian drainage windmill. These have mainly been superseded by diesel or electric pumps to drain the marshland they are still very romantic.

Speaking of wet lands there are still lovely wetlands to be seen in East Anglia...

as well as lovely glimpses of agricultural pursuits,

and examples of art in the countryside where someone had created this sculpture from an old tree trunk.

The path was picturesque as well as soft and green.

Then suddenly we were into pig country,

and we also came across these stocky and placid horses: so different Fromm the leggy and skittish race horses of a couple of days ago.

Arriving at Diss, near where we thought out B&B was, there was a pub with some people sitting outside. Thinking they must be locals, we asked if this was Denmark Street? "Where exactly do you want to go"? One chap asked. Cobwebs B&B we answered, 6 Denmark Street. We were directed some way up a hill until we came to 6 Denmark Street... It was the Baptist Church! We are not prejudiced against Baptists, but nothing on the building indicated that it provided bed and breakfast! 

So, we did what we should have done in the first place... Put the postcode into Google Maps and get directions... It was only a few yards from where we asked advice at the pub, but in the opposite direction!