We sat outside the caravan and looked up the hill to the top of the field and the woodland beyond. Depending on the time of year, the field is covered in Sunflowers - hence the name of the site! It’s a huge field so must be quite a sight in late Summer.
We decided on another beach and cute town - a re run of yesterday’s lovely trip to Southwold. This time we headed 10 miles south to Aldeburgh.
The town is indeed very cute and we spent a pleasant hour walking up and down the high street. We included a walk on the beach but this was far less successful! You don’t walk on Aldeburgh beach - it is very pebbly with the size of pebbles that make any sort of walk a bit of a chore. This was especially true for Tilly who clearly wasn’t enjoying her normal wave running / yapping.
We decided to eat and drink instead of walk! I remembered a particularly nice smoked fish stall on the beach. I remembered correctly! Di and I shared some rather delicious smoked prawns while I bought a smoked mackerel and cheese pie for solo consumption later!!
After that we found a really friendly little coffee shop called The Chocolate Teapot and “forced down” some pastries! I think my pan au Chocolat had its own postcode! We had hoped to eat outside in the sun but it was too busy. It turned out the cozy little inside of the cafe was probably a better bet. Too busy needs quantifying- we’re talking 3 small tables occupied rather than a throng of holiday makers! In fact, this week has been amazingly quiet. I thought the weather might have brought folks out but it turns out the demographic of the few tourists there were very similar to the demographics of Di and myself!! Who’d have thought it?!
To stop Tilly spiralling into a manic depressive state, we decided to find a beach that she could walk / run on.
After driving through to show Di the twee and fascinating village of Thorpeness we headed for Sizewell. Could there ever be 2 different places side by side? Thorpeness looks like a set from the Stepford Wives while visiting Sizewell feels like you’re stepped into a scene from Chernobyl!!
Tilly did get a run - although there wasn’t much sand. We found a sheltered spot behind a fishing boat and had a lie down on the picnic rug. Di read her Kindle and I just relaxed and opened all my senses to take it all in!
We headed back to Brunnehilda, got spruced up and headed out for an evening meal. We arrived at the recommended Queens at Dennington just as it was opening. It’s a lovely old pub with a strong local reputation for good food. And gee it was good -especially the Malteser Sundaes that Di and I agreed it would be rude to share so we had one each!
Back to Brunnehilda for some Earl Grey and more TV binging. We ended the day debating what we could do with the 2 geese eggs the farmer gave us earlier in the day - apparently they make nice cakes?!
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