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Following our visit to Felbrigg Hall and a spot of lunch, there was still time for more activities, so we headed over to the coast at Weybourne. Here there is a collection of military equipment, mainly from the 2nd World War, known as the Muckleburgh Collection.  I had taken the kids there one wet afternoon a long time ago, but this day was warm and sunny so the place was deserted. So quiet in fact that they had shut the café, and no mid afternoon cup of tea was available, leading to an early departure. Here are a few pics from the collection, which is a lot bigger than I remembered, and then a couple from Webourne, including one of Uncle Iain.

Our second day in Norfolk was spent by visiting Felbrigg Hall, another National Trust Property in Norfolk. Felbrigg is a Jacobean edifice like Blickling Hall, a close neighbour. However the scale is smaller than Blickling and rather more domestic. The weather had improved from the day before and we spent a lot more time in the garden than the house, hence few interior shots. The first picture is of the front of the house which is quite different, and not so nice as the back, the second picture. I was using the Sony camera and 25mm lens again.

Alan's Uncle Iain came to stay with us for a while in August 2016. He said he would like to visit some gardens in the UK and so I went with him to Norfolk for a couple days where we visited Blickling Hall, Fellbrigg Hall and Ickworth, all National Trust properties. We stayed for 2 nights in North Walsham, at Beechwood House which was a very nice experience. I was still practising with my new Sony camera but had now received one 'proper' lens for it, which does not need an adaptor and is autofocus, the Zeiss Batis 25mm f/2. I found it an ideal focal length for the sort of photography I was doing. I have been very pleased with this lens, the minimum focussing distance is very small so you can get really close in to the subject with it. It was very liberating to wander round with a small camera and just one lens! The following pictures from Blickling are a bit mundane but it was not the time for 'proper' photography. As you can see it was a dull day, but we m...