title Dippy and the City Dinosaur Trail, Norwich, Norfolk - 19th August 2021 intro Dippy the Dinosaur, formerly of the Natural History Museum in London, is on a tour of the UK and is in Norwich until some time in October. However, as most of that is in term time, we make the most of a bit of summer holiday after the trip to Ireland to queue up for an hour - with the rest of the world and its dog - to see the famous skeleton in the curious (from an ecclesiastical standpoint) location of Norwich Cathedral. Before that, we roam around Norwich for a bit to see even more dinosaurs, on a variant of the increasingly-popular trail-of-individually-painted-statues format. imgp9361 The boarded-up Laura Ashley on London Street imgp9362 A space dinosaur on London Street imgp9363 Shiny dinosaur outside the former Habitat imgp9366 Wisteria hangs over London Street imgp9368 Photos with the dinosaur imgp9369 There's a motorbike outside an empty shop imgp9370 Fred, Harry and Isobel on Castle Street imgp9373 Another dinosaur on an alley up to Castle Meadow imgp9375 Ceiling art over an alley imgp9377 Another empty shop imgp9378 Graffiti on the wall of York Alley imgp9379 A dinosaur on Timber Hill imgp9381 A mobile Churros van outside Chapelfield imgp9382 Fred and Harry in Yo! Sushi imgp9383 Yo! Sushi in Chapelfield imgp9385 We eat sushi outside imgp9387 A spotty dinosaur outside Chapelfield imgp9395 A dino with cakes on its head in Chapelfield imgp9400 Harry, Fred and Isobel walk back from the bogs imgp9401 Fred and a hundred trainers imgp9402 Harry points to an acceptable trainer for school imgp9404 More of a cyber-punk dinosaur imgp9406 Isobel sorts out a screen protector replacement imgp9408 Flowers outside St. Stephen's imgp9409 A green dinosaur by Hay Hill imgp9410 The boys in Montezuma's chocolate shop imgp9411 Isobel buys chocolates imgp9412 A balloon seller on Gentleman's Walk imgp9414 More wisteria on London Street imgp9415 Another empty shop imgp9416 We head out onto Redwell Street imgp9417 Empty shop on Redwell Street imgp9418 Amusingly-altered no entry sign imgp9419 Looking down Princes Street imgp9420 On Elm Hill imgp9422 The top of Elm Hill imgp9423 The Mandell's Court water pump imgp9424 The bottom of Elm Hill imgp9425 Graffiti on Waggon and Horses Lane imgp9426 The former Samson's nightclub on Wensum Street imgp9427 Tombland in Norwich imgp9428 In the cathedral close, on Upper Close imgp9430 The cathedral's newish café area imgp9431 We wander around the cathedral close imgp9432 The boys look at footage of kestrel chicks imgp9434 Fred gets a photo of Edith Cavell's grave imgp9436 The Bishopgate end of the cathedral imgp9437 The boys lean against a wall as we queue imgp9439 Flying buttresses on the cathedral imgp9441 There's a very long queue to see Dippy imgp9442 The boys move position the the cloisters imgp9443 The queue behind us imgp9445 Picnic in the cloisters imgp9446 David Attenborough, carved in coprolite imgp9447 Another view of the cloisters imgp9449 The boys hang around imgp9451 Fred and Harry discover a carved board game imgp9456 We walk through a thousand shiny fish imgp9461 Dippy the diplodocus in Norwich Cathedral imgp9465 Dippy looms over the crowds imgp9467 Isobel gets a photo imgp9471 An altar, and the cathedral organ imgp9472 Dippy's tail whips around at the end imgp9486 The crowd subsides for a brief moment imgp9491 A head-on view imgp9496 The boys are bored already imgp9498 The great nave window imgp9500 Autumn leaves on a tapestry altar cover imgp9502 Modern stained glass imgp9503 Graffiti from 1661 imgp9504 We're back in the cloisters imgp9505 A red GR post box imgp9506 A view of the cathedral spire imgp9507 The boys queue for a slushie imgp9508 Harry slurps something blue imgp9509 There's a Sherlock Holmes dino in the close imgp9511 A knitted turtle in a window imgp9513 The South Gate and Tombland imgp9514 St. Andrew's Hall imgp9515 A dinosaur tile by St. Andrew's car park