After a very peaceful night’s rest from Stokesby and under the Bure Bridges to moor at the Great Yarmouth Town Hall quay
After a very peaceful night’s rest from Stokesby and under the Bure Bridges to moor at the Great Yarmouth Town Hall quay

After a very peaceful night’s rest from Stokesby and under the Bure Bridges to moor at the Great Yarmouth Town Hall quay. Coffee at Tooks, lunch at the Pizza Hut and an evening cinema trip to watch an appalling horror film with Diana

The night at Stokesby which we found very peaceful and quiet after all the building work. I was the first to rise and made the morning drinks and got things moving and then also shaved and showered ready to get The Paxton Princess underway. Debbie came and helped me at the helm and has become quite efficient at doing so these days. The longish trip to Yarmouth where, even with our early start, it was a bit tight under the Bure Bridges and so I put everything down to slide under The Haven Bridge. The harbour radio gave permission to come alongside and moor at The Town Quay and, after a complicated manoeuvre to get a ladder outside my fenders for a safer mooring against the upright quay timbers, we were all fast and ready to see Yarmouth. Coffee at Tooks, the walk to the sea front and then we set Debbie and Della to roller-skate along the sea-front to the Winter Garden whilst Diana and I relaxed by the pier.

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Though they came back as the roller skating was not on there, it was taking place at the leisure centre and this gave us the chance to go in and sit down whilst they played. Ice cream after and then up to the Pizza Hut for lunch with the rest of us eating pizza and Della eating crusts. We were already exhausted afterwards and so spent a relaxing afternoon in the boat reading but, after tea, I took Diana back to the front to the cinema where we watched an appalling horror film called "sleep-walkers" all about people turning into monsters and drawing their energy from human female virgins. The girls had been all right during our absence and were all tucked up in bed by the time we had got back. Early to bed hoping for a bit more sleep this time but the weather was still very muggy and warm.