Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Ipswich

 21 July

This leg of the tour has always been difficult to plan because there are only three trains per day from Great Yarmouth to Reedham and I'll be on the very first train of the day at 15:16. The next is 17:47 which wouldn't get me to Ipswich until after 9pm.

 River Wensum at Norwich

 Magnificent station

 Interesting train: 2 front coaches, half-length motor unit in the middle which passengers can walk through, 2 rear coaches

 River Yare

Everywhere I've walked since the start of this tour has been as flat as a pancake until Norfolk, renowned for being flat. A big hill in Norwich and a smaller one in Great Yarmouth.

Where would we be without computer problems? My phone received an update a couple of days ago and now the widgets of my two favourite travel apps don't work. I uninstalled Train Times UK (by Croworc) to install latest version but can't find it anywhere! I really should have checked first. 

Most train apps concentrate on ticket purchase these days, my favourite just showed time expected, destination and platform for next few trains on the widget. Very useful indeed. Would have been very helpful tomorrow with 11 trains to catch.

  Great Yarmouth, not the finest of stations

 But it does have a sand sculpture. I wonder if any other stations have one?

 Another very comfortable train

 Old Caledonian Sleeper coaches outside Great Yarmouth Station Why?

 Berney Arms station platform is only the length of one coach.

 Reedham. 3 trains per day from Great Yarmouth, all others are Norwich to Lowestoft.

 On the station's information board is a walk. Goes to three pubs and ends at a brewery! I'll be back.

 River Waveney

 I was here in Lowestoft in March when it was very cold and windy. Today it's a comfortable18degC

 This train doesn't depart for 15min but I can recharge the phone for over an hour. In my travels so far I think the only trains without phone/laptop charging points is Southeastern.

 Lake Lothing

 This is the first day this week that all my trains have run and on time

 Woodbridge station is right next to Cruising Club and River Debden.

Ten minute walk to Penta Hotel at Ipswich. My first time at a Penta. All corridors seem to be painted mid-grey with no floral or arty displays so easy to get lost without these visible clues.  My room is mid-green, presumably they all are.

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