Windmill, How Hill

Off to Norfolk for a few days to potter around on the Broads. We've hired a Tupperware boat and Beck has baked a shedload of cake. The windmills are one of the 'icons' of the broads and there are a couple of nice ones at How Hill. There's also a tiny old eel catchers cottage that you can have a look round, Toad Hole Cottage, just below How Hill House, an imposing Edwardian house that's now a study centre for school parties and the like. There are moorings right by the cottage, so you can just pull in and wander down to the windmills. We moored for the night by the ruins of St. Benet's Abbey, where an imposing wooden cross has been erected in the place the altar used to stand, amongst the stacked remains of the huge walls - it was very dramatic as the afternoon stormclouds rolled in overhead...