Time is passing me by. It is already the end of July and I have not even finished the June holiday yet so I am going to cut this short, I may catch up with it later but don't hold your breath!!
Have I mentioned Southwold, a great place? Really nice town with good places to eat and a lovely pier with the most spectacular clock. There are rows of colourful beach huts all specially named by their owners. £50k to spare? One of them could be yours. Adnams brewery is here and the town is actually owned by Adnams (there are a lot of pubs). Nice walks along the prom in the evening and a sandy beach during the day if the weather is kind.
One hot & sunny afternoon we went for a walk in Tunstall Forest, we walked a long way following our noses and as usual or sense of direction let us down. I only felt slightly panicked once, thank goodness we had the sense to follow the sun as we remembered where it was in the sky when we started off. We had only seen one other person the whole time that we were walking and that had been at the very start of the walk. We did quite literally stumble upon a fawn hiding in the bracken. It was very young and beautifully spotted, Like dappled sunlight falling across its back. Great camouflage while it waits, well hidden, for its mother to come back & feed it.
We visited Thorpeness where there is a Windmill and the famous "House in the Clouds". At the lakeside you can hire boats all brightly coloured and have names like Hawk, Curlew and Wasp.
A couple of evenings were spent at our Local pub the Chequers a bit quirky but good beer & Aspalls cider. One sunny evening we sat and watched a spotted flycatcher doing what it does best. The landlord said there had been Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers nesting & feeding young earlier in the month but there was no sign of them when we were there. he used to get otters in the garden as it reaches right down to the banks of the river. He has not seen the otters for 2 years or so. I was very disappointed at this news. The pub was only a four minute walk from Tarka cottage and a great stop off point after a walk in the surrounding countryside.
On our last evening we walked to the next village to have dinner in a really nice pub The Queens head in Brandeston. As I said we walked there about a mile and a half on a very sunny warm evening. The perfect end to a fabulous holiday.
