26th September 2026 and we’re out with the cameras again. The walk isn’t that long (4 miles) but with the increasingly unpredictable weather I feel it wisest to post the photos from certain walks in two parts. Part One: the sun is shining, there’s a slight breeze, the air is warm, let’s go…

26th September 2026

This being a Saturday, we decide to avoid the hectic buzz of Marriott’s Way where it starts in Norwich and join it at a quieter place though still within the city bounds. And so we have a gentle, peaceful start through 🔼 Beech trees and 🔽 crazy waving Horse Chestnuts that look like auditions for Halloween!

26th September 2026

26th September 2026

🔼 No matter where you join the Way, if it’s the Norwich half you’ll cross the river Wensum several times. Here’s our first crossing 🔽

26th September 2026

26th September 2026

🔼 Years back, before the Way was tidied and the land mostly drained, it then was kinda swampy. Yes, I remember that. Now it’s a pleasant, dry-footed woodland 🔽 ⏬

26th September 2026

26th September 2026

26th September 2026

26th September 2026

🔼 Silver Birch have colonised what once was rubbish-strewn wasteland 🔽 While trees have sprung up where walkers have thrown away their half-munched apples, to now bear fruit

26th September 2026

26th September 2026

🔼 Our second river crossing 🔽 and a Way marker, formed from former train-tracks. Both sights are telling us we’re close to the city boundary. And it’s time to leave the rest of the pics till next week.

26th September 2026

Hope you enjoyed this Part One. As you see, we might be away from summer now, but autumn hasn’t yet come.