Norfolk holidays

Inside the lair of the She-Wolf of France: why you should visit Castle Rising

Norfolk seat of the Plantagenets and once home to Isabella, wife of King Edward II, this fortress is a trip that satisfies the mind, lifts the spirit and takes its visitors back in time

Fiona Maddocks

24, Jun, 2022 @9:00 AM

10 of UK’s best active rural holidays

Stay in a shepherd’s hut for the lambing season, try dry stone walling in the Peak District or go trekking with sheep or alpacas

Sarah Turner

24, Apr, 2022 @1:00 PM

Notes on chocolate: A picture-perfect town offers a tasty treat

Where better than Holt to indulge in chocolate peanut butter? By Annalisa Barbieri

Annalisa Barbieri

27, Mar, 2022 @8:00 AM

Benoli, Norwich: ‘If this place was closer to my house, I would eat here a lot’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

‘Few things give me greater pleasure than wandering out of a hotel on the hunt for dinner, expecting nothing and finding a local gem’

Grace Dent

25, Mar, 2022 @12:00 PM

A great walk to a great pub: Sculthorpe Mill, Norfolk

Wander through weeping willows on the Wensum then tuck into gamekeeper’s pie and ‘beers that belong’ at a beautifully restored watermill

Liz Boulter

21, Jan, 2022 @7:00 AM

Seals, the circus and seaside walks: a car-free break on the Norfolk coast

The coast around Great Yarmouth is home to some of Britain’s best wildlife, Roman ruins and classic seaside entertainment

Phoebe Taplin

28, Dec, 2021 @7:00 AM

I took a sailing holiday – on one of Norfolk’s historic wherries

The elegant wooden boats that once cruised the Broads ferrying groceries – and George Formby – are once again carrying daytrippers

Carol Donaldson

26, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM

My return to the Fens and their coast – a land of brooding intensity

Revisiting his childhood haunts of Skegness and Mablethorpe, our writer finds the epic landscape surrounding them a good place to be alone yet still connected

Roger Hill

24, Jun, 2021 @5:30 AM

Great Yarmouth: mixing Victorian seaside charm with a renewable outlook

The Norfolk resort, like a ‘half-baked Naples’ for our local writer, has been refreshed and now has its own London Eye-style ferris wheel

Jonnie Bayfield

19, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM

A floating cabin break on the Broads

A boatyard on the Suffolk-Norfolk border is an idyllic base for rowing, kayaking, wild swimming and forgetting about the world under big, beautiful skies

Isabel Choat

07, Apr, 2021 @5:08 AM

Wellness sailing: shed the stress in the Norfolk salt marshes

Achieve a state of calm with a peaceful boat trip through the last wilderness in southern Britain

Patrick Barkham

22, Sep, 2020 @5:30 AM

We spend our summer holidays 20 minutes from home, in underrated east Norfolk | Patrick Barkham

While north Norfolk became gentrified, its east coast remained undervalued, except by marine life and our writer. But don’t dally … this is the ‘changing coast’