Day 1 - July 20th - Hopton-on-Sea to Haddiscoe - 11.5 miles

Read about why I have embarked on a 3-week 400-mile walk across Britain.

I finally started on July 20th, after many delays, leaving Hopton-on-Sea at 3.30 pm, the end point of the St Michael and Mary lines on the east Anglian coast. With the wind farm at Great Yarmouth behind me and Land's End, my goal, some 400 miles to the south-east, I walked past the ruins of St Margaret's Church and off towards Somerleyton, 5 miles away. Soon on quiet rural lanes and remembering why I had undertaken to do this - the sheer peace of walking in nature. Came to the first of many St. Mary churches at Somerleyton, then dropped down to the station and set off across the Norfolk Broads, convinced I could do it without using roads. It was not long before I was lost in head-high grass and nettles (see video) and walked 2 miles in a circle before reluctantly following road to Haddiscoe and camping the night.