Ideal “purple” day out: taste, smell, admire. Lavender dream!
What to do:
Visit lavender fields (or better to say seedbeds), you’ll see different sorts of Lavender and will be able to buy favourite ones in the shop.
To see real big fields, where they grow lavender for selling all around the world, you need to book a tour on the site.
Taste different food with lavender (we bought cakes and tea) in their local cafe. We also purchased lavender flowers and now we make a similar tea at home, it is delicious.
Also you can visit small farm (£2 ticket). But its fence is very low so we just looked at ducks, donkeys and llamas from outside.
Besides the farm there is a garden. It is very quite, but there is no lavender at all.
Visiting these fields will not take longer than 3 hours (including coffee break). You can walk half an hour to Heacham – small quite town with beach in the North Sea coast.
If you came to the fields through King’s Lynn, then you can stay there for a while and look at the “painted windows”.
How to get there:
Trains from London King’s Cross to King’s Lynn (return tickets from £35, 1h 40 mins journey), then catch a bus to Norfolk Lavender Trading on King’s Lynn Bus station.
Useful tips:
I recommend to buy dry lavender flowers: it is happiness, nice taste and smell for a long time.
