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# Going the extra 107 miles
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## When the photographer Will Sanders was given the chance to drive a new
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Audi A6 on a 107-mile journey around East Anglia, he wasn't quite sure what to
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expect. Here, he tells the story of eco lodges, windfarms and some rather
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tasty pigs…
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[Link to this video][1]
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3:55PM GMT 17 Nov 2008
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Embarrassingly, I haven't seen that much of England. I live in London, and
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have done loads of road trips taking photographs - but have spent lots of time
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in America and Peru, and I have recently got back from Mexico where I am doing
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a project on the Day of the Dead.
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I had not thought about getting away to another part of this country before,
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but when I was given the chance take a 107-mile trip in a new Audi A6 (the new
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engine delivers an additional 107 miles per tank*) there was no excuse not to
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go out driving here and see what hidden gems I might come across.
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I set out in the A6 after spending the night in one of the Fritton Lake
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Lodges, a cluster of modern American-looking cabins hidden deep in the
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woodland (all bright-orange leaves right now). Despite the slippery
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conditions, the responsive handling of the A6 held up exceptionally well, and
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it was easy to find the nearby point where Suffolk turns into Norfolk;
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incredibly there's a clear place on the road at the border where the tarmac
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actually changes if you look hard enough. Just north of there, through the sea
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mists that hang around the coast, I came across Great Yarmouth and Caister
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Golf Club. It's a traditional club next to a racecourse, and turns out to be
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the place where the term 'bogey' was born in 1890, taken from a music-hall
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song that was a hit at the time. There were some lovely characters out playing
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a round, happy to have their photo taken and hear about my journey, as well as
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giving me suggestions of places to stop on my travels. (They even allowed me
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to take a photograph of the Audi on the course.)
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Driving on up the B1159 along the coast, I spotted a cool-looking windfarm, a
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towering group of 10 turbines at the pretty village of West Somerton. Some
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people grumble about windfarms, but I think sometimes they can make a place
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look better. These were asking to be photographed.
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Taking the A6 inland, with a bit of a hunger developing, I made what would be
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one of my favourite and best-timed discoveries: Bray's Cottage Pork Pies,
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which are produced from a farm run by two lovely women, Nell and Sarah. They
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raise their pigs to roam and socialise freely, and then make them into
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amazingly good pork pies. The area around Holt revealed itself to be a bit of
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a gastronomic hotspot, as not far from there is Morston Hall, the only
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restaurant within 50 miles to have a Michelin star, with a brilliant head
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chef, Richard Bainbridge. It's a properly beautiful place too, with the
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restaurant attached to a flint-covered country house. Carrying on parallel to
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the north Norfolk coast, driving on through Wells-next-the-Sea, I found myself
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at the astounding Holkham Hall, a massive Palladian mansion. It's set in
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gorgeous parkland by the coast - some scenes of the film The Duchess, with
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Keira Knightley, were shot there.
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After the grandeur of Holkham, I drove into a gem of a town - Burnham Market
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is fantastic, full of independent shops and traders. Its little galleries and
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cool shops reminded me of Santa Fe in New Mexico. You got a strong feeling
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that the owners really care about their shops - I came across a great butcher,
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a lovely deli. It had a brilliant atmosphere - it would be great to go and
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shop there in the run-up to Christmas. With the sun setting, I jumped back
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into the A6 and it struck me just how comfortable my journey had been.
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Relaxed, I turned the engine on, and made it to the end of my trip at King's
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Lynn just after dark. You can see more of Will Sanders's photographs from his
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107-mile trip in the new Audi A6 at telegraph.co.uk/107miles.
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