This week
The North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival is on this weekend, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September, 10am to 4pm, in the Walled Garden at Holkham Hall: more than 60 producers from across the county, with meat and game, bread, cakes, beer, chocolate and more, food trucks, a cookery theatre and things for children to do. Entry is free; there’s a charge for parking and no cash machine on site, and dogs are welcome on a lead. Holkham is about half an hour from the cottage. Take a cool bag.
The season
The schools are back, and the coast is calmer: quieter beaches, easier parking, and the first pink-footed geese arriving from the north.
Looking ahead
- 11 to 20 September: Heritage Open Days, free across Norfolk.
- 12 and 13 September: the Sandringham Game and Country Fair.
- 16 September to 18 October: the Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail.
- 18 to 20 September: Holt and Sheringham’s 1940s weekend.
- 19 September: the last night of the Cromer Pier Show.