A busy day
Aug. 28th, 2018 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustToday we have done many things, and come home weary but content. The only thing we failed to do was to dispose of the recycling: the recycling facility at Wells-next-the-Sea is closed on Tuesdays. durham_rambler was indignant: "Who ever heard of a city dump that was closed..." In other respects we liked Wells very much. It wooed us with many bookshops, of which I liked the Old Station best, for its mix of pottery and books, its charming garden, its friendly cat. I bought cards at Crabpot Books, and two volumes of Patrick O'Brian from the bargain paperback shop.
Wells also has some impressive old buildings, a huge granary which is now flats, and the Maltings which is an arts and community centre. They have organised a sculpture trail around the town, which we followed. I enjoyed playing hunt-the-sculpture more than I enjoyed the individual pieces, but that's fair enough:
Lunch was crab salad at a friendly café, and an ice cream cornet (toffee and pecan) to carry round the trail. We shopped for our evening meal at the greengrocers and the deli, and finally at the Co-op near where we had left the car. By now we were ready for a cup of tea, anddurham_rambler had an inspiration and took us to the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway, where the Signal Box Café served us tea. There is a special summer holiday entertainment, in which the railway becomes 'the Enchanted Railway', with fairyland decorations and toadstool chairs and tables, which seemed entirely incongruous, but kept us entertained while we waited for the arrival of the Norfolk Heroine, the line's miniature steam engine (the heroine in question being Edith Cavell).
This revived us enough to visit Binham Priory, a ruined Benedictine monastery of which the nave survives as the local parish church - with the massive pillars of the crossing tower still standing isolated behind it.
durham_rambler was indignant: "Who ever heard of a city dump that was closed..." In other respects we liked Wells very much. It wooed us with many bookshops, of which I liked the Old Station best, for its mix of pottery and books, its charming garden, its friendly cat. I bought cards at Crabpot Books, and two volumes of Patrick O'Brian from the bargain paperback shop.Wells also has some impressive old buildings, a huge granary which is now flats, and the Maltings which is an arts and community centre. They have organised a sculpture trail around the town, which we followed. I enjoyed playing hunt-the-sculpture more than I enjoyed the individual pieces, but that's fair enough:
Lunch was crab salad at a friendly café, and an ice cream cornet (toffee and pecan) to carry round the trail. We shopped for our evening meal at the greengrocers and the deli, and finally at the Co-op near where we had left the car. By now we were ready for a cup of tea, and
durham_rambler had an inspiration and took us to the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway, where the Signal Box Café served us tea. There is a special summer holiday entertainment, in which the railway becomes 'the Enchanted Railway', with fairyland decorations and toadstool chairs and tables, which seemed entirely incongruous, but kept us entertained while we waited for the arrival of the Norfolk Heroine, the line's miniature steam engine (the heroine in question being Edith Cavell).This revived us enough to visit Binham Priory, a ruined Benedictine monastery of which the nave survives as the local parish church - with the massive pillars of the crossing tower still standing isolated behind it.
