King's College, Cambridge
The areas of England known as East Midlands, Norfolk, and The Broads aren’t visited by Americans as those regions West and South of London. Some venture up to Cambridge, but few get over to see fertile farmland where at least a third of Britain’s crops are grown or where Ely Cathedral has been towering over a countryside for more than a thousand years. The southern coast of the big bay opening into the North Sea known as The Wash is crowded with vacationing Londoners during warm weather, but from September onward the narrow road A149 is a pleasant drive up from King’s Lyn to Heacham, Hunstanton, Wells Next the Sea, Sherrington, and Comer. Shaggy Norwich a few miles inland is brightened by a massive, unpretentious cathedral. King’s Lyn reminds me of places like Stockton, Yuba City, and Marysville in California. A production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” was the big happening in The Corn Palace.

Burleigh House, the entire town of Stamford, Lincoln’s great cathedral (where the big scene in “Da Vinci Code” was filmed) and Medieval Bishop’s Palace are eye-popping exhibits in the museum that is England. Cambridge Common beside the River Cam
The Organ and Central Cathedral in ElyCliffs on the Norfolk CoastCottage near the Cathedral in NorwichSandringham House, where the Queen lives for a couple of months in winter.Medieval Bishop's Palace at the Cathedral in StamfordBurleigh House near Stamford
The Great Cathedral in LincolnThe Gate into the Old City of Lincoln.