Pupils from Broadland High School at Hoveton put their language skills to the test to tell visitors what they love about the Broads – in French. The students joined forces with the Broads Authority to produce a series of films funded by the European Regional Development Fund Interreg 2 Seas STEP programme.
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The 13 and 14-year-olds also demonstrated their German skills as part of the “Links into Languages” LinkedUp Award Scheme which supports pupil creativity and independence in modern foreign languages.
And the Geography class gave us their version in good old English!
The Broads Authority and Broads Tourism are working together to ensure that everyone can enjoy the wonderful landscape and wildlife of the Broads without causing harm and preserving it for the future.
Many Broads businesses have been awarded Green Tourism Business Scheme status which shows that they champion protecting the environment in the way they operate. These businesses are shown on the map below.
If you operate a business and would like to join the scheme please contact us.
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Griff Rhys Jones, presenter for the BBC TV series 'River Journeys'
“I loved being in the Broads. I have read so much about it, heard so much about it, glimpsed bits of it from cars as I passed by on the way to engagements in Norfolk. I knew the extent of the Broads from Arthur Ransome and the history of the peat excavations that created them from reading research. I guess I thought it might be rather spoilt or overdone, but the few days I spent in my little motorless sailing boat Wood Rose from Hunter’s Yard at Ludham or prowling the rivers in the police launch or twanging my ukulele on a boat house balcony revealed a blissful, mellowed essential part of the English holiday experience – unspoilt and charming. I must go back.”
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Nicholas Crane, Broads sailor and presenter for the BBC series ‘Coast’
“This fragile mysterious wetland was one of my childhood playgrounds. I rowed the Yare, canoed the Bure and capsized dinghies on Hickling. On family walks, we tramped the banks of Rockland and the...
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Julia Bradbury, presenter for the BBC series 'Countryfile'
"I really did enjoy my visit to the Broads to make a film for Countryfile. The landscape and wildlife were great but my best memory is racing in the all-girl crew of a traditional Broads yacht at...
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Chris Packham, presenter for the BBC series 'Springwatch'
"My introduction to the Broads was when I crept out of my battered old car in the early eighties on a freezing morning to peer through my telescope at a group of cranes. As the light came up a...
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James- Broadland High School
James Earl, 13
The Broads is a nice, peaceful place to go on a boat. Personally I think Wroxham Broad is the best as there are many places to eat and visit. I often take a...
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Connie- Broadland High School
Connie Adam, 14
I like living in Hickling and I often visit the nearby reserves. However, I don’t need to go to the reserve to see the wildlife and beautiful sights. There...
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Amy- Broadland High School
Amy Wales, 14
I live right next to Salhouse Broad and my family and I often go for walks in the summer evenings, which is very pretty. In the winter it’s a really beautiful...
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Charli- No place like home!
Even though I live here, the Broads are one of those places where you can still get away from it all and you only have go down 5 minutes down the road! When i was younger, me, mum and dad would...
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Abby- You can never get bored of the Broads
Abby Blake (aged 14)
The Broads can be described in so many ways: peaceful, beautiful and tranquil. Within minutes you are surrounded by nature and all you...
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Joyce -delighted and honoured to be the 100,000th passenger on Electric Eel
Visitors from Lancashire make history
Mrs Joyce Adamson, who visited the Broads with her husband John, and was the Electric Eel's 100,000th visitor said "we live very...
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A November day on the river
from Helen, Norwich
A perfect November morning, warmed by a flask of coffee and wrapped in layer upon layer of jumpers, hats, gloves, the dew twinkling in the sun that has just...
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My First Boating Experience- Ngam Su May
My first self-boating experience in the UK, though short, proved to be very enjoyable. Besides the wildlife, I was fascinated by the quaint houses on the river banks....
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Calmness of canoeing
"I was delighted with the landscape and the silence during the canoe trip. Canoeing was for me a great opportunity to relax and “clear my mind”. This kind of state of mind one can have being in...
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