Category: Travel Writing
[Picture: Decorative drop capital] It is somewhat difficult to analyse the charm which the "Broad" District of Norfolk and Suffolk has for those who have once made its acquaintance in the only way in which an intimate knowledge of it can be gained.
[Picture: Decorative drop capital] It is somewhat difficult to analyse the charm which the "Broad" District of Norfolk and Suffolk has for those who have once made its acquainta...
2. CHAPTER II."If you will give up a fortnight, I promise you that you will find it too short. You went to the Friesland Meres years ago, and enjoyed it. You will like these quite as well."
3. CHAPTER III.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] The next morning we were up betimes to take the last of the ebb down to Yarmouth, and catch the tide up the Bure. As there was a fresh breeze...
4. CHAPTER IV.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] On going back to the yacht, we found that she was moored in the North River, or Bure, having been quanted under the two fixed bridges, and the...
5. CHAPTER V.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] The wind, on the next morning, was from the north-west, a head wind for us, and there was little of it; so little, indeed, that we could not s...
6. CHAPTER VI."Then go, and don't come back until breakfast time." And I drew the curtains over the windows, and tried to think it was quite dark, and to get to sleep again.
7. CHAPTER VII.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] The bridge at Wroxham is very narrow and low. The mast, of course, had to be lowered, and the yacht quanted under the road and railway bridges...
8. CHAPTER VIII.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] Wynne had undertaken the office of steward, and so far we had fared sumptuously, but as we were tidying up on Monday morning, the fact became...
9. CHAPTER IX.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] Being tired of fishing, we had a swim, and then dinner; and, late in the afternoon, we hoisted sail, to a stiff breeze, Wynne and the man in t...
10. CHAPTER X.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] Heigham Bridge is a small stone one, with not much room to get through, and a little above it is the railway bridge, over which the Eastern an...
11. CHAPTER XI.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] It was exhilarating work sailing over Hickling Broad, and we were very loth to leave its wind-swept waters. We had a rare run back along the c...
12. CHAPTER XII.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] It was two o'clock when we hoisted a reefed sail on the cutter, leaving the lateener in charge of the owner, who had joined us, and it was thr...
13. CHAPTER XIII.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] On reaching the yacht, after rowing back with the first of the flow, we started with two reefs down to beat over Breydon, on which the wind ag...
14. CHAPTER XIV.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] The angling in all this part of the Waveney is extremely good, and the bream and roach are of large size. It is not nearly so much frequented...
15. CHAPTER XV.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] In the night we were awakened by the sound of very heavy rain pattering on the deck and cabin roof, and presently we discovered that the recen...
16. CHAPTER XVI.[Picture: Decorative drop capital] There are still some very important Broads in Norfolk and Suffolk, which I could not mention in an account of a cruise, because they are not a...