It was rather sad to find
myself having my last brekkie at Colts
Lodge this morning. As I admired the view there was a deer, bold
as brass, right in the middle of the field outside the conservatory.
With brekkie scoffed we
said our goodbyes to our hosts. If any of my loyal readers need a bed
for the night in the Norwich area I can't recommend Colts Lodge
highly enough.
We've had a good holiday.
We've eaten well, seen some rather good views, had some good days
out. However we didn't get to some of the places we were hoping to
see, and we didn't get to visit friends that we would have liked to
have seen.
I didn't realise just
what a large place East Anglia is.
Today's plan was
(basically) to come home and to do something or go somewhere
on the way. Looking on the map it seemed that a trip to Southwold
wouldn't be too much of a diversion. Southwold is where the nobs had
a country house in "Upstairs Downstairs". It is
where they make Adnam's beer. And there is a virtual geocache on the
pier too. So we thought we'd spend some time there.
We got there.... I've
spent a little time trying to be polite in my phrasing. But I can't.
Southwold was a bitter disappointment. A few days ago I said that I
was disappointed iin Great Yarmouth because it was little different
to any other seaside town. Southwold is very different. On the sea
front it has a pier, a crazy golf course, a boating lake and a stall
that sells ice cream. And that's it. If you search out the back
streets you might find the sweet shop but (frankly) I'm not
sure it is worth the effort. I took a few
photos of the place. It is very pretty but there really isn't
much there.
Mind you there were
thousands of peoople milling about the place. Perhaps the rest of
Suffolk is even duller?
We then took a rather
circuitous route home (via a geocache or two) and collected
"Furry Face TM" from his holiday
with "My Boy TM". I've missed that
dog. He's currently now asleep in his basket having been walking for
much of the afternoon.
"er indoors TM"
has gone bowling and I'm left "home alone" yet
again. It seems to be back to business as usual...
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