Day Seven - Diss - 17 May

We ended up having an unplanned rest day and it was very enjoyable. Liz and Tomas left to return to Hereford at nine o’clock. We had a lovely week with them touring the Norfolk and Suffolk countryside and it was good to catch up again. The house we have leased was very suitable for the four of us and has been ideally situated to tour East Anglia. Henk and I will be in the house for a further two nights and will leave on Saturday morning. After Liz and Tomas left Henk decided to clean our walking boots which we had left in the garage. It took him quite some time to get the boots clean and it’s necessary to do this so we can get them through Brisbane Customs.

We walked from our house into Diss which takes about fifteen minutes mostly along a pretty country lane alongside farmland. We spent sometime having coffee in an interesting bookshop overlooking the Mere with its fountain. We had coffee at this place on our first day and it is very pleasant. We walked around Diss and it was a contrast to when we were there last Friday as there was no market.

We spent sometime in the Tourist Information Centre gathering information on Ely, Cambridge and Sandringham. We have decided to visit Sandringham, the Queen’s Norfolk retreat, tomorrow. It will take about one and a half hours to drive north west of Diss to get there. When we leave on Saturday morning we plan to spend one night at Ely on our way to Cambridge for three nights before heading to London. When we walked back to the house in the early afternoon we had every intention to drive to Eye, a small town nearby but our energy was waning and we decided that we needed a rest day. I read the paper, we watched a DVD and did our washing. I cooked dinner which was the first time I have cooked since we left Brisbane on 2 April. We enjoyed eating in.