>>2473654Hello fellow Sebald bro, I hope you're doing well! I haven't been very active on /out/ lately as I've moved to London for my masters (big mistake) so I'm sorry I missed your earlier posts.
Sadly, I have been doing very little walking recently due to my move to London but I have a little jolly planned with some friends around Thompson water in a week or so. It's a great place if you've never been. Very sparsely populated and you can really get a feel for the old East Anglia. Zero tourists as well so nothing like the north coast.
I've only done stretches of the fens before but you're completely right about how impressive (and extensive) the engineering is. A very very underrated part of England (and even E Anglia more generally). I suppose this applies to all of East Anglia but I love the fens in particular for how enormous the skies are. Being there in the evening is like nothing else.
About a month or so back, a friend and I walked the Norfolk Coastal path as a last hurrah before I left for London. We had a great time and yet again it was the skies that really impressed me. The horizons are just so vast and are only broken by distant Churches. You really get the meaning behind the Betjeman poem:
>What would you be, you wide East Anglian sky, without church towers to recognise you by?If you haven't seen it already his documentary 'A passion for churches' is pure East Anglian kino.
I saw on the archive you posted Cley as one of your favourite towns and ironically enough my favourite picture of the whole walk was Cley windmill.
>pic relatedI also read on the archive the circumstances behind why you left London and bugger me its all true isn't it. I live Dulwich wise which is relatively pleasant and leafy enough but it's so damn expensive. The traffic is non stop and the air is filthy. I've only been here a month but I'm already switching my career ambitions from earning big money to getting back to Norfolk as fast as I can.
