People mingle before the meeting on Level 5
A Night at the Crown Hotel, Southwold, Suffolk - 8th November 2019
As part of Isobel's birthday, we get to do a child-free night off at the Crown Hotel in Southwold, complete with dinner and a couple of trips to the Lord Nelson pub for pre-dinner beers and a post-dinner night cap. We've even got the cool in-the-roof suite we'd had on a previous visit, with its two bathrooms and mini lounge. The next day we have a good few hours to wander around the town, walk along the beach, and visit the Nelson again - this time for lunch, albeit without the beer. The Nelson has recently started serving something of a curiosity: a two foot long (as in 24", or around 60cm) sausage in a suitably-oversized roll, which the bloke next to us orders and actually manages to eat. As he said: "it's a man-versus-food sort of thing". Before that, there's a big all-hands meeting at the office in London, featuring the head of Microsoft UK - Cindy Rose.
next album: The GSB at Dickleburgh, and Samia Malik at the Bank, Eye, Suffolk - 11th November 2019
previous album: Day of the Dead Party at the Oaksmere, Brome, Suffolk - 2nd November 2019
The Level 5 canteen as a meeting room
The all-hands is about to kick off in the canteen
The Lord Nelson pub in Southwold. Oh yes.
Beams of light spill out from the lighthouse
The constellation of Orion rises over the sea
Inside the Lord Nelson, where we've stopped again
A fine selection of Adnams beers
Someone peers into the window of Southwold Books
Activity on the high street
Our room for the night
Isobel in the ante-room/lounge
Funky cushion covering
A view from the window on the landing
The overflow dining room, and epic wooden bench
We visit the 'Wow' vintage shop
Nosher's childhood radio - a Binatone Worldstar
Outside Wow Vintage Southwold
The former Lloyds Bank would make a good hotel
Some original green tiles on Queen Street pharmacy
The smaller of Adnams' two shops in the town
The view from South Green to Walberswick
On the beach
Isobel on the beach
A seagull perches on a groyne
Isobel walks past the closed-for-winter café
The view to the pier
The pavillion is getting its flat roof repaired
A load of roof/floor boards are teleported up
The car park is somewhat emptier than summer
Southwold wheelie bins in an alley
Adnams brewery and copper house
Defend they ryghts
Our pad for the night - The Crown Hotel
A ship's figurehead on the wall of Douglas House
A bunch of semi-derelict lock-up garages
A cool hedgehog sculpture, and a Hog Hotel advert
Mark's fish and chip shop
Southwold post office
Iosobel roams around in the Adnams shop
An old K6 phonebox is now a defibrilator point
A big dog/little dog face-off
Another view of the lighthouse
The Lord Nelson, from the best place to be: inside
Isobel, and the guy who ate the two-foot sausage
Looking back at the Lord Nelson
Someone's stuck a wooden fork into an old wooden post
Isobel on the promenade
A right-of-way notice featuring the act from 1932
It's dustbin city near the public bogs outside the pavillion
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People mingle before the meeting on Level 5
People mingle before the meeting on Level 5
The Level 5 canteen as a meeting room
The all-hands is about to kick off in the canteen
The Lord Nelson pub in Southwold. Oh yes.
Beams of light spill out from the lighthouse
The constellation of Orion rises over the sea
Inside the Lord Nelson, where we've stopped again
A fine selection of Adnams beers
Someone peers into the window of Southwold Books
Activity on the high street
Our room for the night
Isobel in the ante-room/lounge
Funky cushion covering
A view from the window on the landing
The overflow dining room, and epic wooden bench
We visit the 'Wow' vintage shop
Nosher's childhood radio - a Binatone Worldstar
Outside Wow Vintage Southwold
The former Lloyds Bank would make a good hotel
Some original green tiles on Queen Street pharmacy
The smaller of Adnams' two shops in the town
The view from South Green to Walberswick
On the beach
Isobel on the beach
A seagull perches on a groyne
Isobel walks past the closed-for-winter café
The view to the pier
The pavillion is getting its flat roof repaired
A load of roof/floor boards are teleported up
The car park is somewhat emptier than summer
Southwold wheelie bins in an alley
Adnams brewery and copper house
Defend they ryghts
Our pad for the night - The Crown Hotel
A ship's figurehead on the wall of Douglas House
A bunch of semi-derelict lock-up garages
A cool hedgehog sculpture, and a Hog Hotel advert
Mark's fish and chip shop
Southwold post office
Iosobel roams around in the Adnams shop
An old K6 phonebox is now a defibrilator point
A big dog/little dog face-off
Another view of the lighthouse
The Lord Nelson, from the best place to be: inside
Isobel, and the guy who ate the two-foot sausage
Looking back at the Lord Nelson
Someone's stuck a wooden fork into an old wooden post
Isobel on the promenade
A right-of-way notice featuring the act from 1932
It's dustbin city near the public bogs outside the pavillion