EASTERN PROMISE

IN JULY 2020, we felt incredibly lucky to have been able to enjoy a planned summer holiday in Cornwall, during which we met up with some relatives and were blessed with mostly glorious weather. Unfortunately, our luck didn’t last. A four-week lockdown in November scuppered our plans for a final short break before the winter.

By late February, even we – as healthy 40-somethings – had received our first doses of the vaccine and reasoned that enough people would have been vaccinated by Easter to allow at least some reopening of the hospitality industry.

We took a chance and provisionally booked a week’s stay at Kelling Heath Holiday Park, on the North Norfolk coast, immediately after Easter.

We had never been to this area before, but loved the look of it. Then, barely a week later, came the official announcement that caravan sites and other self-catering holiday accommodation would at last be allowed to reopen… from 12 April. Precisely one week later than we had been hoping