From steam engines to a pop-up pasta barn, pickleball and padel to behind-the-scenes tours of a lobster hatchery, there’s so much to enjoy this season beyond the bucket and spade. You just need to know where to look, says Harriet Cooper

From garden tours to Gothic revivals, and classical concerts, Harriet Cooper brings the inside track on the North Norfolk events to bookmark this season

This year, you can book visits to a number of gardens in Norfolk which are opening ‘by arrangement’ for the National Garden Scheme. Almost half will open exclusively for these special visits

’Tis snowdrop season and there’s a host of Norfolk places to visit with wonderful drifts of these beauties; from special open garden events to historic and woodland spaces, here are 10 great walks to see them in all their glory. Galanthophiles, get set… go!