Wind and Flint

On Sunday we decided that we'd take a trip into the countryside just for a change. There'd been a bit on the radio about the fact that this weekend was open day at many of the wind farms around the country. Checking up and one not too far away was open and offering tours that allow you to go inside the turbine itself.

So we managed to make there by lunchtime - only to find out that all their tours were fully booked already. Apparently they were a bit surprised by how busy it was - surely the point of an open day? They are open during the week and the last Sunday of every month so we may make another trip back that way sometime.

So after a stop for lunch in a pub just outside Brandon (which apparently was one of the filming locations for Dad's Army along with the rest of the Thetford area) we visited the Desert Rats Memorial which consists of a tank called Little Audrey and a short forest walk around the site of an old army camp. It was used in WWII by the Desert Rats as a training ground for D-Day although there's nothing left now but the excavated footprints of where the old Nissen Huts stood.

Lastly we took in a bit of English Heritage called Grime's Graves which is a Neolithic flint mine. You get to go down one of the mines and see a little of what it was like down there around 5000 years ago (cramped).