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Seated next to us on the flight was the sound engineer for Steve Martin. Has worked with many in the business.

Extremely polite in an immediately recognizable Southern way. Yes sir, yes mamhm. Just nice to hear him speak. That, and he is interesting to listen to.

The music business is doing poorly, very. Their own fault with high prices and a rushed product. He clearly yearned for the old days, his youth. Probably 20 years younger than I am.icays8

Music is now. done. in single track, rushed, the big studios are gone or, like the one used for Abby road maintained by the UK government.

We will test out his restaurant recommendations.

Pictured is one of the first signs when getting off the plane.

Another spring another Boog Adventure.

Boogs Sack the Natchez Trace, http://www.nps.gov/natr/index.htm

A National park and scenic biway favored by bicyclists.

Naturally, as part of this list, you will share some of the park and hopefully a sufficient amount of the antebellum architecture and history.

We will start in Nashville and finish in New Orleans meeting up good friends.

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15 October. Hot, too hot, very sunny.

Final AA walk of the adventure. Rochester and an advertised Pickwick Papers, Dickens walk. Some, but little of Dickens. Anti-climatic.

Nice castle, small cathedral, and a good bridge.

Missed the Soweto concert in Canterbury, no seats to be had even at the door.

Through Wash and Mudflats,
Dales and Moors,
Fells and Fens
These walks have ends

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14 October. Warm and sunny

Returned the car and we are now on foot and train; arrived here on the high speed train from ST. Pancreas, excellent.

A true ball of string here but first the pictures.

We are staying in the oldest inn here, established 1403, a real coaching inn. Sharon immediately called it a dump. My view is different except for the usual small double bed. Last night we stayed in a very inexpensive chain hotel, Premier hotels. Probably the best hotel of the trip in terms of comfort and layout. Here, we have old stuff, but more interesting.

Pilgrims hospital is open for visits, will do that on Sunday. Notice the 12th century date.

The ball of string: we passed the cathedral and noticed Evensong at 17:30. We joined. Service ran almost an hour and was significantly different than Conques France Evensong. Maybe Anglican versus Catholic.

Excellent young boys and adult men choir, organist, two readings, one from the old and one from the new testament. Naturally the sound reverberated and slowly faded away into the massive columns.

After the service I asked a priest about the concert tomorrow night. Sold out? Let me check. He pulls out a walkie talkie and connects immediately to another. Better service, by far, than we have received from Amex, but that is a different story.

Tomorrow, Rochester, Pickwick papers route walk. Maybe a Soweto concert.

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13 October. Gray and white clouds, some drizzles

Wicken Fen is the last preserved fen, or so we were told by the National Trust office when we again paid a fee to walk about. The fen was reserved for the trust in 1899.

We have walked some fens before but this shows what an untouched version looks like. In the USA I bike through several areas that were in the process of restoring the earlier prairies. Nice to see another preserved type of landscape.

After the walks, muddy at times but I wore my Wellies, we stopped into the Trust cafe for some tea and scones.

Sorry, no scones. Ran out of flour. More will be delivered today.

We had tea cakes, also good.

Lots of thatched houses and other structures in this area. Excellent thatching. Cannot tell the age.

Tonight a convocation of sorts. Dinner is planned with Andy and Sonia, Bobby is coming up from London, and David, Dalik, Jones will also join. Dinner at the snooty tavern.

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12 October. Gray skies, rain held off until end of walks

Wandering over to and around old hunstanton. Very different coastline as can seen in the included pictures. Formations and cliffs.

Monument to Edmond, ninth century martyr done in by the Danes, built in late 13 th century. The is Edmund of Bury ST. Edmond, also of wolf fame.

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11October warm, rain threatening but ….

Heading to the Norfolk coast we wandered Sandringham, royal home and current residence of the Queen. Alas we were not invited to tea, or anything else.

The landscaped gardens, Victorian era, with lakes and beautiful trees, as well as nature walks. Thousands of acres of land are owned by the ” estate”. We even broke down and toured the house, a bust from my viewpoint. Maybe in other parts of the house they have installed a color tv and some furniture that could be used to sit, read, and sip a cocktail.

Fine apples and other produce are grown and sold as part of maintenance. The proceeds of the well stocked gift shop also go to the Queen. They sheepishly admitted it when I enquired.

Wildlife, deer but and pigeon, many ducks. No sheep seen.

The coast is windy, closing down as the season is finishing up. Water looks grey, dark and chilly. Picture on G plus with more likely tomorrow.

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10 Oct. Windy, more windy, dangerously windy at times

Special dedication: Bobby missed a great walk, especially the food.

Back to the coast, the Norfolk one this time. The Norfolk coastal path starts at the edge of the bird sanctuary, and runs out to wide open expanses of flats. We then turned inland, a break from the wind, past the windmill, and eventually around the National Trust land, one part pictured.

As we were wrapping up the walk we saw a sign for a cafe. Small nondescript sign at the edge of a farm. Great surprise. The cafe was an outstanding locally farmed restaurant. I had Tuscan bean soup and the pictured black Russian tomatoes, roasted with olive oil on garlic bread. The low G.I. Multigrain bread served with the soup was so good we later drove to the village of Burnham Market to get to the source.

QB was especially happy with their scones and other baked goods.

With all the locally available food it is a cook’s paradise.

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9 October warmer, windy, no rain

A walk in the Wash, at the edge of the mudflats. Very flat.

Apples apple apples. Each tree different, almost all with excellent non cultivated varieties, still firm and tart the way that they should but often are not. Bobby and I knocking some down in the picture.

The Dartmor pony is an endangered species according to the rider. Very gentle, sting and good with young’ins. She was riding with another person on a show jumping horse.

As usual a walk of increased distance due to poor AA map guidance. Maybe just another hour. Google Maps and fellow travelers helped. This has become a recurrent problem. It is as if the AA authors stopped doing this and several other of our walks as they were in a hurry to get to a pub before the drive home.

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8 October. Intermittent rain

Bobby joined us for this walk along two muddy rivers with mudflats, they all look the same. The route starts and ends in the historic district of Kings Lynn.

After last evenings dinner we decided to eat at Nandos. Chain restaurant serving chicken and sides. Filled mostly with the cool set, miniskirts, no leggings or stockings. Food was decent.

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