Footpaths

Years ago an English friend of Ann's told her that rhe whole of the UK was crisscrossed with paths giving the public access to the countryside. She was intrigued by this, so we bought a map of the Broads that showed all of the footpaths, national walkways and other public access routes.


Wherever possible, when we moored up for lunch or at the end of our day's travels, we went for a walk along a footpath. Some are nothing more than a track along the edge of a farmer's paddock. Hemlock, blackberry and stinging nettle abound - fortunately dock as well! More than once we walked into some stinging nettle and had to find some dock leaves.


Some of the paths, including those that are national walkways, are wider and would allow vehicle access. Where paths cross farmer's property there are gates to keep stock in.

As well as several smaller paths we walked on three national walkways - Weavers Way, Angles Way, and Wherrymans Way.

btw, just to correct a former comment, the place we stayed at on our way to the southern rivers was Stracey Arms as we stated, not Stacey Arms.
;-) Ann-a-Gram