🧭 More Than Words – Episode 38: The Sandbank Redemption 🧭
From dodging airport staff in Sharm who looked personally offended by the existence of tourists, to standing at the literal edge of Britain where the view is mostly industrial piping and a very tall turbine. Majestic.
Featuring:
🏌️ A 2,000km milestone passed quietly while attention was elsewhere
🕌 Al-Mustafa Mosque: genuinely breathtaking architecture, generously budgeted toilets
🌅 Ness Point, Lowestoft: the first bit of Britain to catch the sunrise every morning
🐟 Great Yarmouth: wet sand to medieval herring superpower to frozen food pioneer
🦆 Worlingham’s duck decoy: luring waterfowl to their doom through elaborately landscaped treachery
🕰️ Beccles church clock: refusing to show the time on the Norfolk-facing side. Not a malfunction. A position.
🥩 Gillingham Hall: Francis Bacon developed his theories here, and then let a refrigerated bird on a hillside have the last word
🕷️ Barnby Marshes: conservationists successfully bringing back a water-sprinting, pond-hunting spider the size of a side plate - thanks for that
🪙 Kirby Cane: a Bronze Age gold disc, a suspicious garden story, and a courtroom date in 2027 — archaeology meets true crime
History, herrings, spiders with attitude, and a gold disc that probably shouldn’t have been in anyone’s flowerbed.