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Dérive by Adam
February 20th, 2008 1:16 PM
Anyway onwards.
It was a strangly warm Sunday afternoon in Great Yarmouth and Tom and I were chatting on Skype when we decided we should go out, usually to task but today we had not particular task in mind. We met at the Lighthouse Café which we usually do and decided to go for a walk, we didn't actually know where and it wasn't until I suggest dérive-ing that we decided to not have a plan. We followed our senses and our reasoning to try and find somewhere interesting to go in this town.
Dérive
We started off by walking into the town centre from hunger which I was feeling and visited Boots to purchase a sandwich for me, we continued on in the town and discovered that we had never been down one of the rows so our inquisitivity led us down Row 115 which led into Palmers car park and onwards to another part we had never noticed Howard Street Car Park. It was a completely empty place and it was peaceful if not a bit eerie as it was once the site of a fire, it also felt odd to be surrounded by billboards on most sides.
We decided to continue back to the market place where we knew where we were and then to Fullers Hill as it seemed the natural thing to do as it is the historical area of the town. This led us down a path we had not been before and through a subway which had really nice paintings in it of the town and we felt quite sad that they had been grafitied. We also felt spooked because we had seen pictures of this place when it was flooded up to the roof and wondered how the paintings survived. Left or right? Left. Under a low bridge which stated it was 5'9 tall even though I am 6' and I only had to duck slightly.
We had never been here either, up some steps as we had reached a dead end and over a bridge towards the less urban area. The sunset also enticed us to Asda where we knew it would be nice to watch it. When we arrived we walked across the car park to a path where I spotted a path which led underneath Breydon Bridge and onto the marshes. A great place to watch the sunset. We wondered if we could reach the railway line from here so we moved to the fence which produced fear as we found out it was electrified.
We then went down a slope to a gate and through it and sat down on a bank and watched the sunset which was beautiful and pondered just how small we are. Very, very, very, very small indeed. Infact smaller than you could imagine. When the sun was nearly done we wanted to get back before it was dark and moved on to the railway line which led us back to the railway station and to the old tram bridge which we wanted to look at as it was rusty and interesting. We watched the final moments of sunlight from here and then we went back to Haven Bridge House to conclude.
We walked 4 miles. Longer for Tom as he lived further away. We enjoyed it.
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posted by GYØ Vicki on February 22nd, 2008 12:26 PM
Great pictures of the sunset, see, Yarmouth's not completely rubbish!
posted by GYØ Daryl on February 23rd, 2008 4:27 AM
No, it's see, Yarmouth can be made not to look rubbish, however it is.
Tom used a vibrant colour setting on his camera at haven bridge and it came out black and white
posted by GYØ Vicki on February 23rd, 2008 2:11 PM
Yes, we know how far away Tom lives...
We walked 4 miles. Longer for Tom as he lived further away.
Yes, we know how far away Tom lives...
Thanks for bottling up in pictures the very, very, very, very small feeling of the walk.