🏞️ 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.

🌾 More Than Words – Episode 35: Only Fens 🌾
From Pennine reservoir punishment to Fenland flatness so extreme it questions the Earth’s curvature, Episode 35 is what happens when geography gives up halfway through.
Featuring:
🐕 Dexter: convinced all dogs are beatable (situationally incorrect)
💈 Barber trips: now classified as endurance sport
🥧 Tebay Services: farm shop or organised financial ambush
🌧️ Keswick: outdoor shops with a town attached
🌾 The Fens: land on loan from the sea
🐑 Ropsley: sheep-washing infrastructure, peak innovation
👑 Threekingham: three kings, or just one bloke called Tric
⚓ Matthew Flinders: mapped Australia, missed all the credit
💣 Holbeach: dog walking, but with live bombing practice
📏 A17: straight, bleak, and morally opposed to corners
It’s travel with windburn, medieval admin, lost treasure, aggressive flatness, and a landscape held together by pumps and optimism.