East Coast of England

I am 11 days into travelling the Coast of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland and I am loving it!!!We (Aaron and myself) set off on the 20th of January, we left his Mums house in Rushton, Staffordshire and headed for the East Coast, our first destination was Kings Lynn followed by Cromer where we spent our first night in our Van! Kings Lynn was a nice town full of beautiful old buildings and some ruins, and Cromer was a beach town with big red cliffs a long stunning pier and a cosy feeling, We spent the next few days travelling through a few small beach towns - Norfolk Broads, Southwald, Aldesburgh and Orford. Orford had a great big beautiful castle that we parked next to. We had arrived at night in the dark and everything was a bit spooky, the castle had a very dim light coming from somewhere inside, there was a pair of glasses just hanging off the fence, the cemetery was in the middle of the town and one of the headstones shadows was towering over the cathedral, it was quiet on-one on the roads, not a person in sight, we enjoyed the evening alone in a pub with the bartender slowing going crazy! The next morning we were outta there!The beaches are all beautiful little places with beach huts of all colours lined down the beach. The sand is golden and the sea mostly dirty but still pretty. The houses change from town to town, some are white with black boards on the sides, some are little red brick houses with hundreds of chimneys, some are red brick with strange looking roofs made from some sort of sticks or straw, but the most common houses in the beach towns so far are pretty little concrete houses, painted pale pinks yellows and blues.Tthe roads are cobble stone and there is only room for one car at a time!! We moved onto Ipswich where (courtesy of our friends Jess and Simon) we had a shower after 4 days of being….all natural… we had lunch and a catch up and along we went on our merry little way to Whitstable where we spent the night and then moved onto Canterbury. By now we are on the South-East Coast. Canterbury. What can i say!! Canterbury had to be my favourite town (more like city) we'd visited so far. Absolutely amazed by all the ancient buildings. The castle we explored was nearly 1000 years old, it's walls are still standing but crumbling slowly, and one of the castle gates is still being used daily. The cathedral was ancient and stunning, we went to a night service, the organ playing was SUPERB it was so loud and the music was so beautiful, the way it echoed through the building! The Canterbury river which flows through Canterbury town is stunning, a little bit brown, yet so beautiful. It circles in, out and under the buildings, they even have a very old chair hanging over the river which they used for drowning suspected witches back in the day!! (Bad time to be a women I reckon) The buildings, shops and houses were all so OLD and even if they were't that old they were built to look old, I could almost see the horses and carts trotting down the pebble stone roads, and market stalls with dirty little kids running around with sacks while the farmers talk and push there carts of hay around, it could almost pass for a set off Game of Thrones! Such a historic, medieval town. I loved it! However… Something I noticed comparing the small beach towns and the bigger towns is that the smaller towns really appreciate what they have in the way of history. They look after the castles and heritage sites, where as it felt almost like the bigger towns didn't really care for what they had, example being in Canterbury they build big busy roads right next to the crumbling castle, there was litter EVERYWHERE! Even in the castle. I felt a real sadness, and i wondered if half the people who lived there even know or care about the amount of history in that town. So off we went after two days back to the coast and to the small town treasures!!