Do you know samphire? We bet you don’t. Samphire (Salicornis europaea) – yummy yummy – is also known as sea asparagus or poor man’s asparagus. It’s a wild plant growing in abundance in the saltmarshes where it drowns twice a day. It’s a vegetable of ten to 15 centimeters hight and it’s gathered at our …
Category Archives: Norfolk, England
Slow Norfolk
To visit North Norfolk is for me, Dina, always a journey into slowness. Every time I come here I have to get used to that I don’t need to hurry. I have to exercise to walk through the village slowly and to stop the racing monologue in my head. As Laurence Mitchell writes: “Norfolk is …
Unser Ruhepol
“Amundsen hat den Südpol entdeckt. Peary meint, den Nordpol entdeckt zu haben. Und wir sind die offiziellen Entdecker des Ruhepols”. Dina, Klausbernd, Siri und Selma A rural oasis of tranquillity between salt meadows and the sea makes Cley nex the Sea a place of peacefulness. A calm anchor in life and a good spot to …
Private As Private Can Be
“It was a dark and stormy night” With those as famous as infamous words Edward George Bulwer-Lyttons (1803-1873) starts his novel “Paul Clifford” (1830). This phrase was often ironised and mocked by many like Peanuts’ Snoopy. Do you know how it goes on? Of course “the rain fell in torrents”. But don’t you think that …
A Fine City
“Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary …
Cley Crash
First of all we want to say „THANK YOU“ to all of you who warned us that the last big flood might have uncovered mines on Cley beach and all who were worried and concerned after the helicopter crash in Cley next the Sea last night. Vorab möchten wir uns bei allen lieb bedanken, die …
Gresham’s – a fine School
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk is a myth. Siri and Selma are always quite excited when we see the students in their smart uniforms when shopping in Holt. Gresham’s is an outstanding and very fine public school founded by Sir John Gresham in 1555. It’s one …
Dogs – a Paradise
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” Milan Kundera a Klausbernd Vollmar with a dog by the 500 year old Sessile Oak, …
The Best Things in Life
…are not things. “The best things in life are free; the second best are very expensive.” – Coco Chanel And then there are all the other valuables in life; Love ♥ and Sex, Happiness and Laughter. Besides blogging, pardon me. 🙂 Let me introduce a few very special persons and great bloggers who know how to celebrate the …
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