Rain forecast all day. Last breakfast at the White Horse, looking out over the rainy saltmarsh.
We drove half an hour through rural Norfolk, listening to Harry Cox in the car, to Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, near Dereham.
We spent a couple of hours looking around the workhouse, where there were exhibits detailing workhouse life. The workhouse was used to house the poor and destitute and often those who should have been in hospitals had it not been cheaper to house them in the workhouse.
There were also galleries with many cases of other stuff of general miscellaneous historical interest, and lots of agricultural tools and machinery.
There was a working farm run in the old fashioned way, with turkeys, Large Black pigs, Suffolk Punch horses, sheep, chickens.
We went to a nearby pub listed in the CAMRA guide, but it was deserted and they weren’t doing lunch and the landlord was unable to suggest anywhere that was, so we ended up getting a sandwich and a baked potato at The Bull in Dereham. Then we drove to Wells-next-the-Sea and checked into the Crown Hotel.
R went for a run and saw a toadstool.
J played fiddle and went for a mosey around town.
Oysters, terrine, cod, cheese, coffee and chocolate truffles for dinner. Nice comfortable room.