Story 1 - Hunstanton Hunstanton is a quiet Victorian resort and is the only town in East Anglia that faces west. Riding down the main street, you are greeted by chip shops and a tattoo parlour. Geographically misplaced, the ‘Tamworth Tearooms’ stand alongside the village green next to other small shops selling or dealing with sundry matters.
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Story 2 - Happisburgh The R1 has a mode-mapping switch which acts like three different throttle cams on the twist grip. This effectively means you can select a different power delivery for a given amount of throttle.
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Story 3 - Norfolk (part 1) A little further south, the painter Gainsborough enjoyed Suffolk with its coloured air but it was Turner who influenced the landscape writing of Thomas Hardy in the West Country. He called Turner’s works ‘light modified by objects’. His feelings for Egdon Heath were putrified by the swamp, a haunting English vision that offered the opposite of hope.
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Story 4 - Norfolk (part 2) North of the Broads and this is a landscape of flatness and my view of the day. Cattle graze on meadows reclaimed from the sea, and protected by a defensive barrier of sand and shingle, marsh grasses lead to the road across from which lush meadows appear to move like the arms of a Mexican Wave.
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Story 5 - Sussex Dream language can contain subversive themes in a superficially innocent content. This is English understatement. This is literally ‘under the statement’....
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