From Norfolk we headed south, hugging the coastline and stopped in Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The sky is blue, the sun is out, a free parking space is easy to find and a beautiful walk next to the beach to Thorpeness and back along a disused railway line back to Aldeburgh where the smell of chips was too tempting to resist. Rounded off with an afternoon at Sutton Hoo, this was a pretty perfect kind of travel day.
Unfortunately the following day was wet, wet, wet! That’s winter travel for you! I decided to visit Colchester Castle museum to stay dry. It has a very impressive collection of Roman artefacts, including the Fenwick treasure hoard. I enjoyed seeing the mosaics and the numerous items of intricately designed jewellery. Well worth a visit if you like your history!
The rest of our week has seen both sunshine in Southend and showers as we crossed into Kent. It has been lovely to see and catch up with uni friends and their families in Essex and Kent. We realised it will be twenty years since we graduated next year - how time flies!
Finally, after being woken up most mornings by my youngest nephew whilst staying with them over Christmas, it seems the strange auntie he had sleeping on the sofa scrunched up in a sleeping bag is actually rather inspiring - see his back to school work below. I’m not quite going ‘all around the world’ on this trip, but tomorrow we are on the move again to Canterbury.
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