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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

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For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

 

 

Today, some pictures from last year from valued commenter Sloane Ranger.

Like so many pictures emailed late summer-winter, they were skipped over. Thanks for everyone’s patience!

Sloane Ranger took these pictures when visiting friends who live in the traditional English seaside resort of Cromer in Norfolk and thought peeps here might be interested in seeing what such a place looks like.

Picture 1
A typical English summer day at the seaside! View of the pier taken from the Clifford on 27 July 2017.

Picture 2
The Pavilion Theatre at the end of the pier and home to the last remaining end of pier show in the world (according to the ads). This is a variety show with singers, dancers, speciality acts and bad comedians.

 

Picture 3
A street in Cromer with traditional fishermens cottages.  Now mainly owned by wealthy weekenders.

 

Picture 4
Cromer taken from the pier. The Victorian Gothic building in the foreground is the Hotel de Paris. Stephen Fry was a waiter there before he became famous.

 

Picture 5
Beach Huts. Useful for stowing your beach gear, brewing up a pot of tea and sheltering from the rain.

 

Picture 6
Fish and Chips. THE seaside food.

And to my eye, that looks like some smashed peas – wonderful – a proper meal!

 

Picture 7
The Cromer Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat practising for an emergency at sea.

Thank you so much Sloane Ranger, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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    satby

    Love the U.K. though I never made it to the western coast. Beautiful part of the country judging by the pictures. Thanks Sloane Ranger!

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    Litlebritdifrnt

    Smashed Peas! SMASHED Peas! Harumph! Those my dear Alain are MUSHY peas. *wanders away muttering under her breath, smashed peas, I can’t even* (insert smiley face emoji here).
    Still lovely photos. I can’t wait to get my camera fixed so I can get you pictures of my neck of the woods.

    Morning everyone.

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    Amir Khalid

    Those beach huts remind me of the holiday-camp sequence from the movie version of Tommy.

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    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Alain the site fixer: Of course you are forgiven. It would be churlish of me not to. The pictures remind of a Chris De Burgh song (can’t remember the title) but the lyrics “there’s nothing like a seaside holiday town in the rain” sum up that first picture perfectly.

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    Elizabelle

    Now I want fish and chips and a strong pot of tea for breakfast. Thanks, Sloane Ranger.

    Great photos. Seaside beach on an overcast day.

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    Alain the site fixer

    @Elizabelle: I always have strong tea, can’t stand coffee since a childhood overindulging-cum-upchuck incident.

    I’m getting car serviced right now and am dragging because I didn’t get enough. Can’t wait to get back so I can make a big glass mug of strong English Breakfast.

    In case anyone’s ever looking for very good tea in the US, check out chadotea.com and silkroadteas.com. I get my indian/black teas from Chado and my Chinese/oolong/green from SilkRoad.

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    MomSense

    I drink coffee in the morning but late afternoon, I like a strong cup of black tea.

    These photos are wonderful.

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    Waratah

    This is the English seaside town in the novels I read including the weather. Thank you great photos.
    I like my fish and chips with fresh lemon or malt vinegar.

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    Origuy

    Except for London, I haven’t seen any of the South of England. I was all over the North a few years ago, I should send some of those pictures. The ancestry line that has my family name came from Norfolk, so I have that reason to go.
    Thanks Sloan Ranger and Alain for the pictures.

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    wkwv

    Being more familiar with barbecued salmon than proper fish and chips, I have two questions. Is it cod and is it bone-in or boneless?

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    Waratah

    @wkwv: Fish for fish and chips are boneless. I can remember tearing into newspaper wrapped and eating by hand. The type of fish depends on the location. In my opinion only fresh fish for flavor.

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    J R in WV

    Wonderful seaside town well photographed. Thanks!!

    Not so much like American beach towns, at all, but for the pier, which lots of beach towns here have. Not the theater, which may well be unique today.

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