Angles Way Long Distance Trail. Part 1 - Gt Yarmouth to Fritton. Woodland Tarp and Bivi Wild Camp.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video, I am back on the trail again - this time, heading away from the coast along the Angles Way on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. This 93 mile long distance path follows the river Waveney from its mouth in the Norfolk Broads to its source in the Brecks and beyond.
It is a trail I have been wanting to walk for a long time and seemed right to take this route back to where I started this walking adventure all those years ago and thus completing the route - almost circumnavigating the county of Norfolk.
This stage was very enjoyable, despite the windy and overcast conditions. Passing by the expanse of Breydon Water and the Roman fort at Burgh Castle before looping away from the river along sandy lanes and pretty tracks and eventually arriving at the ribbon like lake at Fritton.
A well earned dinner and a couple of boozy hot chocolates before an early night in my bivvy to rest before tomorrows adventure.
I hope you enjoy the video.
Thanks for watching.
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Episodes such as this walking tour are the quintessence of why Simon’s channel (and Andy’s, too) is hands down the best viewing/channel on TH-cam. I live in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona and find these walking tours of the English countryside entrancing and mesmerizing. I will watch this multiple times over and enjoy every second. Thanks so much for doing these walks and filming them for us.
Couldn't have said it better. I, too, live in the Sonoran desert and Simon and Andy are my favorites as well. Cheers!
I live in hot, dry, arid Australia, looking to retire in mexico. Simon is my favourite as well. You guys couldn't have said it better. P.s. everything in Australia, especially while camping, either wants to bite you, sting you, kill you, or eat you.
@@rasch760 Now that's a bit harsh...... some things just want to steal your gear while you are not looking..... Cheers all, JB, Clarence valley, NSW....
@@rasch760 even the women
Agreed
I love the way you show us landmarks from the UK, which those of us in the US will most likely, never see. You then give us historical information about the areas you visit. Good Job, Simon! I love streaming your videos. My husband says "Put that bloke on t.v., let's see what he's doing". Thank you, Simon, for keeping us entertained.
Simon is a great host. He doesn't feel alone and he keeps us company as we waste our free time preparing for nothing. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
I very much appreciate the added historical bits you put in. It's fascinating to me. So thank you.
Agreed, lots of interest AND HISTORY. I love history 😃
Yes Simon I second this and my other personality third’s it too haha we love it thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you Kimberly! 😁
Love watching your videos after a long day. This video I’ve watched countless times. I just love it. Its a miniature vacation for me (like your others) but this series is my favorite. Thank you. ❤
Can't begin to tell you just how good this really is. Everything designed to take us along with you and what a fascinating, beautiful walk and camp it's been.
The history, the glimpses of things that make you want to see more, the nostalgic music at start and finish... just wonderful, Simon.
"Something to prod" made me laugh out loud. All my life I've loved the Brits and in you I see why.
Yeah there’s something really special about Simon’s videos that you don’t find anywhere else. I guess it’s Simon :D
Intro music + cow cuties = Simon, A Bloke in Stardew Valley! 😊
Your walking videos are always this best! Your videography is top notch! Thank you so much for doing these, they're jewels!
Quite remarkable how aggressive cars seem when they arrive out of context after so long watching peaceful nature. Makes you think
Another great wee video Simon ,can’t wait for the next one ❤️🏴 🏴 ❤
I enjoy the camping/ cooking videos a lot even though I don’t like red meat! But I also really enjoyed this walking video too. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to part 2.
Content of this caliber is so rare on TH-cam. I am so thankful that you share these places and these sights with us. Beautiful scenery, interesting historical information regarding the locations and sites, and the peace and quiet of the adventure. Another home run, Simon! So looking forward to the next installment. Take care and be safe out there! ☺☺👍👍🧡🧡
You made my Wednesday much better thank you
Great vid, something about the shot choices and editing here that really takes us along on the journey; you've got these vids down to a fine art, Simon. Lovely pacing, always look forward to your next jaunt.
You're more than a presenter Simon you're a mate, love your videos keep up the good work buddy.
Thanks for showing the Roman fort and the map of the path. Love the history aspects. Well done.
21:52 a nice healthy dose of extra warmth🥃
Thanks Simon 9.miles and I'm absolutely done in. ❤ You should be proud of yourself for making such good content and finding something interesting wherever you go.
Loving the scenery. Beautiful filming and editing.
Sorry to sound like a broken record but another great video Simon🌟. Im sure you're aware of how much we subscribers really appreciate your videos and all the work that goes in them 👏👏. Can’t wait for part two! Many thanks mate.
Great trail to walk, long but nice. Seems like a nice trip and good place to spend the night.
Thanks for taking us along with you. Enjoy your time on the trail.
God bless and stay safe on your travels.
A great video Simon, I was really pleased to see you doing one of your Norfolk walks, you really showcase the area, and how peaceful it can be down there, having gone on Holidays in the 80s and 90s to Norfolk as a kid it's always nostalgic, can't wait for part 2 👌
Great video, very interesting. I love windy days like this!
Simon in his happy place 😊. Love it ❤
Such a great to see the wee roads , houses , street posts , what the sidewalk looks like and the chimneys etc
So please know Simon we enjoy you and love you
We don’t mind wHat we see and we even enjoy your shed . I say this as me n mates all
Watch you on our big screen tv in California haha
Bless you sir
It is so good to see you out hiking again Simon. I like when you share details about the areas you pass through. Thank you for sharing - and that hot cocoa looked just yummy :) have a great one and stay safe. Cheers from Denmark :)
Absolutely enjoyed watching all your videos. Very soothing music as well. Watching your videos makes life meaningful
Always such a joy to watch your videos. Beautiful country..peaceful and relaxing. You have a very calming voice and manner. Thank you
Simply, brilliant. Thank you 🙂
Wow Simon 👍👍 . Another excellent adventure, can't wait for part two of this adventure 😊
No beers this time ☹ . Love it when you crack a can open by the camp fire . Great video though . East Anglia can look terribly bleak in rubbish weather. Like the leafy lanes though . You must be very fit to walk those miles , and with all the extra toing and froing for camera set up . Looking forward to part 2 👍👍
Got to love a video by Simon to relax to just before bed. ❤
As a budding TH-camr myself, I can appreciate all the work that goes into a video. I've learned a lot from you over the years Simon. I welcome you into my home for every video of yours and I sincerely thank you. Best wishes my friend. Thanks for taking us along on your adventures.
Simon, week after week, you put out top-notch content and I thank you for that. I wish you all the best mate! You so deserve more than 189k subs. ;)
Thanks mate!
@@simonablokeinthewoods : I'm curious as to the reason for the terracotta tiles in the wall. Where they used as a capstone, then they just decided to keep building higher? Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed it, although a machete might have been handy on that overgrown section.
Best wishes to you. Weather is hot and Sunny here, so you may be in for a treat.
Excellent video as always Simon. You always manage to capture the beauty and history of our amazing countryside with a bit of light humour and honesty about the trip. Thanks.
It is a civilized man who adds some civilization to a primitive environment by adding a snort to his hot chocolate. 😀 Excellent videography . . . I even would call your videography very professionally executed. Thanks and take care.
The Sandy path was beautiful and lush. Roman fort is amazing, a third century build? Absolutely incredible! I don’t mind when your path takes you through towns and little bergs, it gives be a glimpse of your great country. I live in the US and have never been abroad so I really appreciate it. Looking forward to part 2!
I met some American tourists last week in Epping Forest and they were telling how they'd visited the Tower of London and staggered that it was a 1000 years old. I had a little laugh and then told them that literally 40 feet from where they were standing was an Iron Age Hill Fort around 2500 years old! Completely blew them away - sometime we in the UK don't appreciate what we have. Mind you, I still want to revisit the States and Canada some time 🙂
To me, England is where history started. I know better of course but to visit there would be the top of my bucket list check off!
I live in Belton, (moved here 8 months ago)- I walk my Labrador down sandy lane, to fritton woods nearly every day. It’s beautiful.
Can't beat a stiff sea breeze. Great vid mate.
Great Simon, loved it. I should be venturing out myself for the first time in years. Wicklow here I come.❤❤
Enjoy mate! 👍
A great video, thanks.
Always love your hiking adventures. It gives us such a great look at the countryside/ocean side that many of us will never see. The work you do in the making the video is not lost on me either. Lots of behind-the-scenes camera relocations, etc. you make good movies! Thanks for taking us along.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Great stuff. Beautiful scenery. I enjoy your walking trips.
What a blustery day, looks like a lovely part of the country side. Another great video again. 👍
Great video, Simon. The amount of work you put into these is remarkable, and much appreciated. 👍
What a treat for me to be sitting here where we had a 97F day and to watch your video of such a beautiful land and a more moderate temperature. Thank you Simon.
That's the most polite way of saying a country with shite weather I've ever heard 🤣🤣
I could do without the constant onshore gale that we've had for the last two months !!
sounds like me here in AZ 😮😢...but ill trade Simon !!!!😅
I’ll take a bit of that sunshine! 😁
@@northernswedenstories1028 : The weather here at the moment is hot and Sunny, absolutely beautiful.
The hiking adventures are my favorites. Well done.
Toothpaste and sausage on a tortilla... "Mmm... Lovely!" 😂
Greetings Simon, I enjoyed your adventures I'm always amazed with the different landscape in the 🇬🇧 I hope to one day visit the 🇬🇧 in a bushcraft experience... Keep up the fantastic video...
This is exactly what I needed to see today. Cheers Simon!
Another quality video simon, keep up the good work from a fellow Norfolk resident.
Ooooo. Crafty trick dmsoaking the twig in the alchol stove. Im stealing😂😂😂. D🤙
Love these walking tours, Simon. Love Norfolk too! Thank you so much for bringing it to us!
Cracking vid. Enjoyed that Simon . Cant believe you lugged that chair along 😂.
Very inspiring to see you off on these lovely adventures .
Take care 🏕👍🏞
Gt Yarmouth export spaghetti to Italy 😂😂 What in a tin ? ❤😂
Love to walk it vicariously, would love to walk it myself but I guess it will never happen anymore. So thanks for taking 'me' along with you ;-)
Wow, so beautiful. Nice weather for walking but oy, the wind! That can be really tiring but you managed well. Your mix of hiking, canoeing, building and making keeps your videos interesting always. Thank you for your hard work.
I always love your adventures! Thanks for posting them Simon.
Great video mate, the look on your face when you had your first bite of some scran after a long day in the outdoors was priceless. :) great channel.
What a lovely walk, so many different types of scenery and a lovely overnight spot to camp, very enjoyable, thanks for taking us along with you
The exported spaghetti face is new classic.
Old shipwrecks? Started looking for my former Mother In Law.
Thank you Simon , I love these walking adventures especially in East Anglia .My Grandad’s family lived there for 100s of years but I never have so it’s really nice to see where I came from.
Great video, I think England is a beautiful country.
Thanks for taking us with you Simon. This video was a welcome calm. Take care, be well
Nice one Simon. A very traditional hike and camp, could be centuries old, proper English spring, a bit bleak and miserable. No frills or spectaculars. Loved the fortified hot chocolate, well deserved. Campfire would surely have topped it off but I understand your thinking. Thank you for sharing your trip.
A great video to watch. Nice to see a simple hike without all the bells and whistles that some channels have these days.
Yes some I used to watch have more luxury items than most have at home, obviously sponsored, I don't mind anyone making a few bob from their videos but some are just selling out at this stage.
And I’m smiling again 😊 love your hiking videos Simon, top stuff…. Your one on the Norfolk Coastal path enthused me to explore Norfolk and did so on the “Beat the Sunset” Ultramarathon… keep up the top work 👍
Thank you , Simon .
🐺 Loupis Canis .
I really enjoy your hiking videos. The beautiful scenery along with the history. Good job. Great video
Great to c u back out walking again showing us a different part of the country side
Good night Simon !! 😂
Oh mate there are so many places here I have memories. Spent quite a few years living here as a teen and young adult. When you walked up Sandy Lane in Belton right past one of my old mates houses who is no longer with us. Bit gut wrenching there and a lot of memories from years long ago now... I know so many of these places like the back of my hand and it really is a mix of invoking good and not so good memories. Still probably the place in the world where I have more friends than almost anywhere else I have lived and worked.
Life is a funny old thing eh? The way we change as we age and the things that spark memories. I have been here watching your vids on and off pretty much since the start of your channel and I love a lot of what you do. Thank you for making this one in particular though. Keep up the good work and take care bud :)
I really like your hiking videos. My mate did the Angles way a few years ago and wasn’t hugely impressed with it but watching this, it looks a great walk. Great video Simon. 😊👍😊👍
I would love to do this. I’m half a world away though, and we have the Great Walks but they’re a very different beast and booked out by tourists months in advance. Can’t wait for part two. Maybe one day I’ll visit.
0:46 I just love this soundtrack in the Beginning and Ending. Love From INDIA🇮🇳🎧😌🫠
Excellent stuff Simon. I am physically disabled due to an accident, these adventures allow me to enjoy the things that I took for granted and miss so much. Looking forward to the next episode. Keep up the great work and commiserations for your sad loss of Maggie. Cheers George (Australia)
I`ve not watched this yet but am delighted to see you are back!
Simon, another great video and looking forward to seeing the follow-on parts/sections of your trip.
I have just returned from the Broads. I chartered a motorboat for a week even though my perference is sailing. I have chartered boats in Norfolk for quite a few years now and I have always enjoyed the break, even if it rains! Looking at the ground under foot it looks like you filmed part 1 early May while I was there. I was there 6th to the 13th and I had a few days of very heavy rain.
Breydon Water is a nice stretch of water, but unluckily I was there when the low tide/slack water was 06:00 or 20:00 and I noticed the Berney Arms is still shut which is the nearest pub to Breydon to moor at (to my knowldge and not including pubs Great Yarmouth). I opted for a 05:00 start and glad I did there was not a single boat on Breydon and it was like a mirror! Lots of mud though!
The River Bure as it enters Great Yarmouth and where it joins Breydon has a nasty tidal stream, I have seen many a hire boat travelling backwards or sideways because they didnt heed the tidal warnings. Just to add to it if you have a boat that requires a substantial air draft/clearance, its always is a nervous experience going under Vauxhall and Acle Bridges even if you have calculated it correctly. They are both extremely low...
Missed out on the River Ant, which is one of my favourite broads.. It rained so much that I couldn't get the boat under Ludham Bridge!
Hi Simon, I’m an East Suffolk ex pat living in Oz. Get Yarmouth was a wonderful day out when I was a kid. This video was a complete delight. Thank you
i loved the peddars way and the norfolk coastal path..great to see you doing the angles way..im a lover of east anglia ..having stayed in lowestoft/pakefield and the stretch from dunwich/southwold and cromer/sheringham so many times..i think the waveney valley is really fascinating..ive walked around reedham area a few times..but would of liked to walk more of it..if i had a choice in life id be split between cromer/overstrand - southwold or kendal in cumbria..i love in and around kendal,surrounded by the lake district,the beautiful howgills,and the pennines to the south of it..i live in west sussex now..but im originally from teesside so im born facing eastwards like yourself to the north sea ..excellent walk again simon..keep up the good work.
Congratulations Simon that was your best offering yet and I love all your videos. Truly wonderful. Reminiscent of two of my favourite content creators Sean Emery and Kevin Callen. Fantastically done mate!
Thank you! That is high praise indeed!! 🙏🏻😁
Love following you informative films especially the new ones about the ex army dinner pacts cheers keep up the great films
Damien 👍
Fantastic. All the best. Cheers 🍻. 👍🐾🐾😎
Love this Simon - looking forward to part 2! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing another great adventure with us! 😊
Lovely video sir.
That shot at 4:29 is one hell of a walkback
9:44 am here and it was uploaded 44 mins ago yesssss so grateful thank you sir
Brilliant video I really enjoyed watching it :) very much looking forward to watching part 2
The old Alton chair aye! Good to see some Aussie products making it across the pond.
What a beautiful walking path.
The angles way is a truly wonderful journey especially when you go through the heart of suffolk. My favourite walk locally having done the peddars way the weavers way and the boudicca way. I'm new to your channel and really enjoyed watching. Look forward to part 2.
Hi Simon, excellent video as always mate. Do love the history on the walks, make for some interesting research on my part ! " Bloody Romans"! Keep up the good work I find all the videos very entertaining bud and looking forward to the next instalment, big thumbs up from the south coast.
Regards
Moose
Thanks Moose 🙏🏻👍😁
Always enjoy your videos, many thanks for sharing.
Great as always and close to where I walk my dog, I know this area very well.
I can't help thinking Charles Dickens will be very surprised if he was to visit today.
Great viewing once again Simon we really enjoy your hiking trips. Very entertaining, interesting and informative. Weather looked grim. Can't wait for the next installment. Thanks Simon your videos are better than anything on main stream TV. Dave and Viv
Come on Simon, we all know that it was Captain Birdseye that invented the Fish Finger. 😉😜
Brilliant. Following your walk on the map reminded me of the Arthur Ransome book "we didn't mean to go to sea" where they sailed through Great Water. Really enjoy your videos Simon. Thanks.
Very enjoyable. Appreciate the History bits. Have fun.
Happy Trails
Great to see you out on a long distance hike again. Thanks for taking us!
You have a beautiful country enjoyed the roaman history looking forward to part two
Dang bloke... I sure do love your content and the music you chose. I'm still missing Maggie 😞