Special treat: A flint- and brick-built Jacobean country-house hotel two miles from Blakeney, with an excellent Michelin-starred restaurant. From £160 per person, including breakfast and dinner.
Mid range: A former Victorian farmhouse converted into a stylish boutique hotel with efficient, friendly service. Price from £90 per person, including breakfast.
Budget: A four-star hotel with outlandish interiors and a delightful garden. Price from £70 per person, including breakfast.
Catch your first sight of the area’s atmospheric coastal landscape of marshland and salt flats from the terrace at The White Horse in Brancaster Staithe (01485 210262; whitehorsebrancaster.co.uk).
Head to the Georgian town of Burnham Market to buy your picnic provisions at the Humble Pie delicatessen and Gurneys. Relax over a morning coffee at The Hoste Arms by the broad central green.
Stride out eastwards for an hour’s round trip to Wells-next-the-Sea, with its colourful beach huts, returning either along the sand or by the quiet coastal path behind the pine woods.
18th-century Palladian mansion in a large estate which has superb William Kent interiors and magnificent five-acre walled garden. Nearby, Blickling Estate, birthplace of Anne Boleyn
Depending on the state of the tide, book onto a boat trip to Blakeney Point to see the common and grey seals lolling on the water’s edge. Hour-long boat trips depart from Morston Quay.
Do a brief tour of the flint-built, coastal villages of Blakeney, with its pretty seafront, and Cley with its windmill, delicatessen and shops selling local pottery, smoked fish and second-hand books.
In good weather, pick Wiveton Hall Cafe (10) (01263 740515; wivetonhall.co.uk; mains from around £8), where brightly coloured tables and chairs are placed under pines next to the marshes.
For an excellent menu based on local organic produce go to Back to the Garden (01263 715996; back-to-the-garden.co.uk; light meals from £7.50, mains from £15) the newly opened Art Cafe in Glandford
