title	A Birthday Trip to the Red Lion Hotel, Cromer, Norfolk - 27th May 2026
intro	By way of a birthday treat, Isobel has sorted out a couple of nights at the Red Lion in Cromer - the hotel on the clifftop that has a bar with some fourteen hand pumps, ten of which have real beer on. It also turns out that our room - the Billiard Room - is probably larger than the footprint of our entire house, and that the food is awesome, along with the views from the bar out over the sea. The hotel even provides binoculars, which come in handy as we watch the ships passing by.
imgp8836	There's broken glass at Gridserve in Norwich
imgp8837	A view of the world through broken glass
imgp8838	Isobel comes out of Gridserve
imgp8839	The car gets a top-up before the drive to Cromer
imgp8840	A first view of Cromer pier from outside the hotel
imgp8844	The pier gift shop is getting a paint job
imgp8845	People on the very windy pier
imgp8847	Seagulls wheel around over the seafront
imgp8848	A view over the pier railings
imgp8850	Rusty parts of the pier are hauled away
imgp8854	The back streets of Cromer
imgp8856	The contents of a derelict shop window
imgp8857	Cromer's epically-towered church
imgp8858	Isobel in the nave of St. Peter and St. Paul
imgp8860	An impressive stained-glass window
imgp8861	More windows of stained glass
imgp8862	Some early-20th-century glass
imgp8863	Bright light from the clear windows along the aisle
imgp8864	Express News has an impressive home-made sign
imgp8865	A laughing butcher statue on the High Street
imgp8867	Cromer's Hotel de Paris
imgp8869	A payphone with an actual working phone in it
imgp8870	Some sort of derelict shop or café
imgp8872	Our epic suite: The Billiard Room
imgp8875	Nosher has a bath in the room
imgp8877	The view of the sea from the bar
imgp8888	The sky looks like an oil painting
imgp8902	Cromer lifeboat's crew does some training
imgp8911	The sun sets over Cromer pier
imgp8914	Surfing the wave, Cromer style
imgp8916	The sun goes down over the North Sea
imgp8920	Cromer pier in the dusk light
imgp8924	The pier and the Hotel de Paris
imgp8926	Cromer Pier and its Victorian ironwork
imgp8935	More of the sunset over the sea
imgp8941	Under the pier
imgp8947	The pier again
imgp8949	The moon rises over Cromer
imgp8957	Swirly steps and patterns in front of the pier