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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Phoebe Smith

The Broads on a budget: paddleboarding in Britain’s largest protected wetland

The River Bure near Coltishall, Norfolk.
The River Bure near Coltishall, Norfolk. Photograph: John Worrall/Alamy

There are 124 miles of lock-free, navigable waterways, ripe for boat exploration, in Norfolk and Suffolk’s Broads national park – Britain’s largest protected wetland. Sadly, a much larger four-figure number, in pounds sterling, was what kept popping up on my computer screen when I was searching for a suitable boat on which to spend a long weekend enjoying them.

Thankfully, I had a plan B – or rather, a plan SUP.

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