A walk in Stiffkey

What a beautiful, warm weekend it was in North Norfolk recently when we took a little trip to Stiffkey. Different people tell me that it's pronounced Sookey or Stookey but I'm not sure about this. Whichever way I say it, I'm bound to be corrected.

We grabbed lunch at Stiffkey Stores, a tiny shop that sells toys and children's books and Marzano tomatoes but where you can also buy very good coffee and homemade cakes and sit on the bench outside in the pretty little courtyard bedecked at that point with cherry blossom and pink magnolias.

Wary of plastic nurdle pollution from that recent ship crash in Hull harbour, we did not take the path over the National Trust's new bridge across the salt marshes towards the sea but instead walked along the inland path. You can take the North Norfolk Coastal Walk here to Morston but we just did a couple of kms and back, whole murmurations, of Brent Geese rising into the air forming random swirling flypasts as we walked. I don't think I'll ever tire of that flat, bleak coastline, the roar of the sea in the background.