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

A long weekend paddleboarding the waterways of the Broads national park is bliss – and costs a fraction of the price of renting a boat

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. Continue reading...