Cool Place of the Day: Waveney River Centre, Norfolk
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Your support makes all the difference.The Waveney River Centre is an oasis of activity in what truly feels like the middle of nowhere down in the southern Norfolk Broads.
It’s many things rolled into one: it’s a well-equipped camping and glamping site, right by the water, but it also has a number of holiday lodges and a nice restaurant with boutiquey B&B rooms above. It offers moorings to hire boats and rents day boats and canoes at what must be one of the best locations from which to explore this part of the Broads National Park – a location which also offers plenty of opportunity for glorious walks and cycle rides.
There is an indoor swimming pool, a children’s play area, canoe hire, day-boat hire and cycle hire, river trips on the Betsie-Jane, a "secret wildlife garden" for kids, plus regular visits during the summer from local wildlife experts and storytellers.
The site's energy is partially supplied by solar panels, the pool is energy efficient and they have low-energy lighting throughout. Pretty much everything is recycled and the centre has won the David Bellamy conservation award several years running. But maybe the best – and greenest – thing they have done is to reinstate the foot ferry across the river, which not only gives access to beautiful Carlton Marshes and Oulton Broad but has made the car journey from Lowestoft to Waveney about six times shorter. Truly a place to leave the car keys in a drawer for a week.
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