🏞️ More Than Words – Stage 37: A Broad Church 🏞️
From Norfolk’s flatlands to its theological, agricultural, and occasionally explosive history, this stage is basically a guided tour of a county that wakes up every morning and chooses eccentricity.
Featuring:
🧀 The Full Fondue — the only triathlon you’ll ever need
🌴 Sharm el‑Sheikh backroads — walking laps like a tourist trapped in a screensaver
🍺 Little Fransham — a pub named after football teams and a font that predates most modern plumbing
🛕 Wendling — medieval monks, WWII bombers, and turkey sheds; the Norfolk Circle of Life
🦌 Dereham — deer in the name, miracles in the well, poets having a full emotional reboot
⛪ Hockering — medieval church, RAF bomb stores, and trees attempting a coup d’état
💰 Honingham — Boudicca’s emergency savings account, still unclaimed
🚜 Easton — agricultural Glastonbury: prize bulls, neon slushies, and tractor choreography
🐄 Bawburgh — barefoot saint, miraculous oxen, and a church wall that said “nope”
📜 Little Melton — medieval gossip murals and the only Norfolk school the Luftwaffe actually hit
🌉 Cringleford — a bridge that’s carried queens, rebels, and now people furious about cul‑de‑sacs
📚 Norwich — medieval literary influencer energy; Julian of Norwich walked so Partridge could run
It’s travel with saints, rebels, bombers, hoards, miraculous livestock, agricultural festivals, and a bridge that’s seen more drama than most capital cities. Equal parts historic, eccentric, and quietly unhinged.