Hunstanton – don’t waste your time

Is Hunstanton a nice place to live or is Hunstanton rough?

Don’t Live Here! I came to Hunstanton for a ‘peaceful retirement in a Victorian seaside town’. Built and designed from scratch by the Lord of the Manor – a ‘Mr Le Strange’. It has over the years evolved from the picturesque splendour of a retreat for the well heeled Victorians of London, seeking the health […]

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Great Yarmouth – A museum of bleakness and decay

Is Great Yarmouth a nice place to live or is Great Yarmouth rough?

I visited Great Yarmouth several times recently and hope never to have to return. Where the bleak, brown, hostile sea stops, bleak, hostile depressing streets start, with grim “amusement” arcades on the dilapidated front where it is impossible to imagine deriving any joy or amusement. The star attraction The star attraction it seems is a […]

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Cromer, supposedly known as ‘Gem of the North Norfolk coast’ – why?

Is Roughest areas in Cromer a nice place to live or is Roughest areas in Cromer rough?

Cromer, supposedly known as ‘Gem of the North Norfolk coast’ – why? Oh, yet another town in amongst the peaceful wilderness of North Norfolk has been taken over by ‘*****’! These malicious-looking creatures, lurk close by to the arcades wallowing in the joyful sounds of the music they bring, to attract more and more of the […]

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