Candy coloured beach-huts, wind swept piers, glowering cloudy skies, hardy families with buckets and spades on pebble beaches, lighthouses on rocky outcrops - it must be the English seaside!
Lovely weekend spent in Southwold, soaking up the old-fashioned seaside charm: a very sweet town, with a gentle, sleepy feel, with lots to look at and enjoy.
We particularly liked:
- Southwold Pier - endlessly optimistic cafes with outdoor seating protected by gigantic windbreaks, and the eccentric Victorian-style slot machines at the Under The Pier Show
- The Adnams Brewery Shop - Peronelle blush cider to die for, mmmm, and vast arrays of Suffolk ale for the Boy
- Dinner at The Swan - unexpectedly superior dining in a beautiful Georgian inn, I had chicken confit with a hazelnut sauce, yummy!
Only regret: no meal opportunity to sample the much recommended fish and chips.
Only thing lacking: a decent tourism website ... c'mon guys, get it together!
