🧭 More Than Words – Episode 38: The Sandbank Redemption 🧭
From dodging airport staff in Sharm who looked personally offended by the existence of tourists, to standing at the literal edge of Britain where the view is mostly industrial piping and a very tall turbine. Majestic.
Featuring:
🏌️ A 2,000km milestone passed quietly while attention was elsewhere
🕌 Al-Mustafa Mosque: genuinely breathtaking architecture, generously budgeted toilets
🌅 Ness Point, Lowestoft: the first bit of Britain to catch the sunrise every morning
🐟 Great Yarmouth: wet sand to medieval herring superpower to frozen food pioneer
🦆 Worlingham’s duck decoy: luring waterfowl to their doom through elaborately landscaped treachery
🕰️ Beccles church clock: refusing to show the time on the Norfolk-facing side. Not a malfunction. A position.
🥩 Gillingham Hall: Francis Bacon developed his theories here, and then let a refrigerated bird on a hillside have the last word
🕷️ Barnby Marshes: conservationists successfully bringing back a water-sprinting, pond-hunting spider the size of a side plate - thanks for that
🪙 Kirby Cane: a Bronze Age gold disc, a suspicious garden story, and a courtroom date in 2027 — archaeology meets true crime
History, herrings, spiders with attitude, and a gold disc that probably shouldn’t have been in anyone’s flowerbed.

🏞️ More Than Words – Stage 37: A Broad Church 🏞️
From Norfolk’s flatlands to its theological, agricultural, and occasionally explosive history, this stage is basically a guided tour of a county that wakes up every morning and chooses eccentricity.
Featuring:
🧀 The Full Fondue — the only triathlon you’ll ever need
🌴 Sharm el‑Sheikh backroads — walking laps like a tourist trapped in a screensaver
🍺 Little Fransham — a pub named after football teams and a font that predates most modern plumbing
🛕 Wendling — medieval monks, WWII bombers, and turkey sheds; the Norfolk Circle of Life
🦌 Dereham — deer in the name, miracles in the well, poets having a full emotional reboot
⛪ Hockering — medieval church, RAF bomb stores, and trees attempting a coup d’état
💰 Honingham — Boudicca’s emergency savings account, still unclaimed
🚜 Easton — agricultural Glastonbury: prize bulls, neon slushies, and tractor choreography
🐄 Bawburgh — barefoot saint, miraculous oxen, and a church wall that said “nope”
📜 Little Melton — medieval gossip murals and the only Norfolk school the Luftwaffe actually hit
🌉 Cringleford — a bridge that’s carried queens, rebels, and now people furious about cul‑de‑sacs
📚 Norwich — medieval literary influencer energy; Julian of Norwich walked so Partridge could run
It’s travel with saints, rebels, bombers, hoards, miraculous livestock, agricultural festivals, and a bridge that’s seen more drama than most capital cities. Equal parts historic, eccentric, and quietly unhinged.

🐳 More Than Words – Stage 36: Coast of Living Crisis 🐳
From whale-powered bone mills to a medieval pedlar who dreamed his way to a pot of gold, because Norfolk’s tourism strategy is apparently “flat horizons, Viking place names, and a surprising amount of whale fat.”
Featuring:
🌊 Sutton Bridge: three attempts at crossing the same river
🦅 A man who shot wildfowl for sport, then had a change of heart so dramatic it needed a seatbelt
🐳 Whale carcasses hauled upriver to become fertiliser — remote location chosen specifically so the smell was someone else’s problem
✈️ RAF Narborough: once Britain’s largest airfield, later a barn
💀 King’s Lynn: Hanseatic powerhouse, medieval port, and the town that produced two men who signed a king’s death warrant
🏺 The man who found Tutankhamun
🍺 A village that: lost its last pub, formed a committee, and got it back — rural Norfolk draws the line at not being able to walk for a pint
It’s travel with dyed pigeons, medieval barns, RAF ghosts, whale mills, and landscapes so flat they could double as spirit levels. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and agriculturally stern.