The Norfolk Alps

[Regular.Cyclist]

Norfolk is a part of the country that I have never been to but know it’s a reasonable flat. It seems though that the makers of the Netflix series Senna weren’t so sure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7kd7g2lxyo

 

[sevenfourate]

Bumping off a kerb is about as Hilly as it gets round here…..

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Desperately dull county on the scenic front.

 

[Drago]

Desperately dull county on the scenic front.

Yet strangely pretty in places for all that.

 

[Ajax Bay]

I suggest the Norfolk Broads offers attractive scenery @SpokeyDokey , unless you're using 'scenic' as a euphemism.
And the coastline is remarkable from Snettisham to Cromer.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I suggest the Norfolk Broads offers attractive scenery @SpokeyDokey , unless you're using 'scenic' as a euphemism.
And the coastline is remarkable from Snettisham to Cromer.

Not imo.

Tried North & South Norfolk on 2 separate holidays and it just didn't do it for me.

It is a remarkably dull county.

 

[sevenfourate]

Desperately dull county on the scenic front.

Really ? You ever cycled Sheringham, Hunstanton, Cromer, Brancaster way etc on the Coast road ? I’m not sure any human on the Planet could legitimately call that scenically dull…..

 

[HLaB]

No mention of Pidley Mountain Rescue bizarrely

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Yet strangely pretty in places for all that.

I concede that the odd cottage is pretty. But that's about it.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Really ? You ever cycled Sheringham, Hunstanton, Cromer, Brancaster way etc on the Coast road ? I’m not sure any human on the Planet could legitimately call that scenically dull…..

We'll have to agree to differ...

 

[Reynard]

Just too funny. That netflix series has enough inconsistencies in the plot and settings to make it leak worse than a sieve. It's the work of amateur deluded fanboys who want to deify the object of their nightly dreams, rather than people who have done serious research and actually visited the locations involved.

Snetterton's my local circuit. Have spent many an hour and worked many a media pass there. The start-finish straight is *marginally* uphill, but for those who don't know, it was a former WW2 airfield under the aegis of Bomber Command.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Norfolk flat? You're joking.

I did a 100 miler there once, some of those hump back bridges are a real leg burner. I had to change gear twice.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Norfolk flat? You're joking.

I did a 100 miler there once, some of those hump back bridges are a real leg burner. I had to change gear twice.

One of the hardest 100 mile rides I’ve done was on a pretty flat route. You’re pretty much on the power all the time as you don’t get the ‘free’ downhill speed. It didn’t help I hadn’t ridden my bike for about 12 weeks after a nasty wrist fracture and those I was riding with were training for Ironman.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

No mention of Pidley Mountain Rescue bizarrely

Probably as it’s not in Norfolk.

 

[Drago]

As I have mentioned before, I'm a Scotsman but by a horrible twist of fate was born in Kent. My Grandad had gone south for a job there and when he had a heart attack my pregnant Ma raced down to be with him and in all the excitement I popped into the world early.

Well, I worked with a fellow sergeant who was proud Norfolkman. It was Norfolk this, bootiful that, Bernard Matthews turkey the other. One day I discovered he'd actually been born in Suffolk in not dissimilar circumstances and he was incredibly embarrassed by the cruel hand fate had dealt him at birth. I still pull his leg about it hen I see him.