Breach the beaches of North Norfolk, including wild Holkham (tie in a visit to Holkham Hall and stop for lunch at The Victoria), Brancaster (seafood at The White Horse), and Wells-Next-the-Sea, with its pretty coloured beach huts. Grab a bacon butty at Wells Beach Café.
Meet giraffes, tigers, leopards, meerkats, penguins, and more at Banham Zoo. Go underground to discover subterranean history at Grimes Graves. And be bemused by BeWILDerwood Norfolk, a curious treehouse adventure featuring treehouses, rope bridges, slides, zip wires, and a maze.
Sign up for more adventure at High Lodge, with adventure golf and play areas dotted around the forest. Enjoy kart rides, interactive exhibits, and animals at Gressenhall Museum. Ride the Mid-Norfolk Railway from Dereham to Wymondham. And explore the working farm and workhouse exhibits at The Old Workhouse at Gressenhall.
Grab a day pass for Center Parcs at Elveden. Take a buggy-ride safari through the grasslands of Watatunga, home to the most varied collection of deer and antelope in Europe, free to roam at will. Or discover Church Farm, a sweet petting farm with tearoom, and Pensthorpe, a nature reserve with huge indoor play area and café.
Stay on site for home massage from masseuse Missy. Dip into the downward dog with yoga from Susan. Or wipe away the stresses of modern living with a reflexology session with Georgia. And walk the 50-acre grounds, along the river trails and down to the lake – bring a drink to enjoy on the pontoon.
Head to Lynford Arboretum for its bird life, spring flowers and autumn fungi, to Thetford Forest for pines, heathland, and broadleaves, and the Norfolk Coast Path, for a trek through history, heathland, sand dunes, salt marshes and nature reserves. Or head to the heart of The Brecks on The Pingo Trail Walk.
Take a magical history tour around Oxburgh Hall, a moated Tudor country house, Holkham Hall, with its parkland and playground, Houghton Hall, and Sandringham House, country retreat of the Monarch. And potter Burnham Market, Norwich’s cathedral and Royal Arcade shops, and Cambridge’s colleges and River Cam.
Visit the country’s only Neolithic flint mine open to the public at Grimes Graves. Find other ancient symbols throughout the area in Bronze Age burial mounds. Swing your clubs at Thetford and Royal Norwich Golf Club and keep the clay-pigeon population in check at Chalk Farm Clayground.
