Worldly Wednesday: Norwich, Norfolk

Last Friday Nan and I travelled to Norwich to meet my agency consultant to meet in person for the first time. Norwich is about a 40 minute trip on the train from where I live (Oulton Broad), and we left at a decent time in the morning.

Here are some pictures from the train.

The night before we left, we had written down Google Maps directions to get from the train station to the agency. Of course, we got lost. Luckily, we've met some very friendly people who were helpful in giving directions. We finally made it to the agency and had a lovely chat with my consultant.

Afterwards, we took a stroll through the market place, which was on a pedestrianized road lined with shops.

My consultant had told us about Norwich Castle and how we should visit it if we had the time.

On our way up to the castle!

The castle has been turned into a museum, so, there is a 'castle' part of the museum as well as displays of art, animals, and history.

This is a very large tea pot.

Here are instructions on how to don a toga. They even had togas to practice with. Of course I had to try it out too! Unfortunately the togas were only made for small people, oh well.

Going into the castle!

This is the entrance to the stairwell (one of those narrow twisty ones)

 Heading down the stairs (I started to feel claustrophobic half way down).

 In the basement of the castle they showed different types of prison set-ups and torture devices.

Here are some pictures from the balcony of the keep.

Look at the brave knight!

Here is a shot from the top of the well that was in the castle.

Inside the castle they had a smaller diorama of what the castle would have looked like back when it was in use.

Here is one of the many arrow slits in the walls.

Beautiful stained glass windows.

I took this photo walking back to the train station as we crossed a bridge, what a view!

That's all for this weeks

I hope you enjoyed my pictures from Norwich! I look forward to reading about what you all have been up to. Please link up below, and have a great week (you're half-way there!).

Monday Made It #3

Today I'm linking up with Fourth Grade Frolics for my third Monday Made it!

Last fall I lived with a family while I was in teachers college. A few months after I moved out I heard that their daughter was pregnant. Since we had become good friends while I was living there, I decided to make my very first baby blanket! My mom is big into quilting and always puts together a blanket any time someone has a baby. 

I found this really cute Precious Moments baby jungle animals fabric, and set to work.

Here is the finished product

I was down to the wire finishing it since I was also preparing to move, so I didn't get any 'in the process' pictures. As you can tell by here face, she really loved it.

Thanks for taking a look! I can't wait to see what you've made this week!

Saturday Snapshots

It's the weekend! That's probably more exciting for those of you who are back to work. I'm patiently waiting for my start date (a week from Monday) to begin supplying in local schools. I went into Norwich to meet my consultant (more on that Wednesday) and he told me that I already have a day booked with a school!

Anyways, that's not why you're here. You're here to see the beautiful pictures I'm going to post for Run Miss Nelson's Got the Camera's Saturday Snapshots!

I will be posting my pictures from Norwich on Wednesday for Worldly Wednesday (come back and check it out!), but for today I want to share some pictures taken around Lowestoft and Oulton Broad. Enjoy!

These pictures were taken in the market at the Britten Market in Lowestoft

The bridge over the broads lifting to let a boat through.

The park near my house.

My train stop.

Have a brilliant weekend, I can't wait to see all your beautiful snaps!

Worldly Wednesday: Oulton Broad, United Kingdom

Happy Worldly Wednesday everyone! I hope you've all had a good start to your weeks. I've had quite a tiring a stressful one myself. Now, without further ado, today's Worldly Wednesday.

 So, Sunday we set off towards the Toronto airport (Pearson International) around 1:00PM. Here is all of my luggage in the back of the car.

We stopped for a bite to eat (myself, my Nanny, and my parents)and then made our way to the ticket desk, and through security. We had a long time to wait at the airport as the lines were much shorter than we anticipated. Our plane boarded around 8:50PM. Here is a photo of my Nanny (who accompanied me and is staying with me for a week) and myself on the plane before take-off. It was her first time on an airplane!

                          

Just landed in London, England. This was the airline we flew with, British Airways.

Welcome to London! This was taken inside of Heathrow Airport, where we failed to find the taxi driver my agency had sent to meet us. Luckily someone was kind enough to lend us their phone so I could call and get in touch. Shortly after this we found our driver.

In the taxi driving on the left side of the road!

On the way to Oulton Broad.

Beautiful stonework on the bridge near my house.

My new home for the next 10-11 months! My room is the window on the upper left hand side, it's so cozy.

The stained glass window in my bathroom. I tried the shower out for the first time last night, the water never got all that warm but I figured that was just something I was going to have to live with. Later today my landlord came up to us and said that she had just found out the water heater was broken. Hooray for hot showers (hopefully the heater will be fixed tomorrow) I wasn't looking forward to having Riobamba reminiscent showers (I even bought dry shampoo today because of it). 

Yesterday afternoon Nanny and I took a walk down by the Broads. There were a number of swans hanging around.

Look how happy I am to see swans! That or maybe I was just so tired I'd become delirious...

Me and some new swan friends.

a boat docked near the bridge.

The broads looking over the bridge.

 Boats!

 Guess what we had for dinner? The fish pieces we got were HUGE! It was very good but I couldn't finish all my food.

Today we took the bus into Lowestoft, which is the main part of town. This Alice in Wonderland tea cup ride was on a pedestrians only road lined with shops.

Nan and I walked down to the sea, this is the coast of the North Sea.

That's all I have for now. I'm still quite jet-lagged, so I apologize for my brief post. I'll try to make a more exciting one next week.

I hope you all have a marvelous Wednesday and link up with your own fun stories!

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