A return to Southwold pier
A Return to the Beach, Southwold, Suffolk - 20th December 2020
We haven't been to the beach for ages, and so rectify that with a trip to Southwold on a nice day. Luckily, reports of the place being over-run by all the second-homers who escaped London prior to Lockdown 3 turn out to be not apparently true, as it's fairly quiet, for Southwold at the weekend at least.
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Looking down the hazy beach
Isobel, Harry and Fred on the promenade
The boys leap off the sea wall
Fred does another leap
Walking along the promenade
Harry hurls himself off the wall
Fred considers the next jump
Isobel has a go too
A seagull whirls around
Harry leans on a groyne and stares out to sea
Fred has a little lie down
The lighthouse on St. James Green
Wow Let it Rock vintage shop in Southwold
We queue up for fish and chips at Mark's
A peeling 'out' sign on Mark's chipper
We order some food
We follow the Covid signs to outside
Walking out through cleared-out restaurant
Outside Mark's fish and chips
Fred and Harry hang around
Looking down Station Road
A neon Fish and Chip sign
Fred looks around
The sadly closed Lord Nelson pub
We eat our grub outside the Sailor's Reading Room
Looking up East Street
It's only 89 nautical miles to Hoek van Holland
Down to the beach
There's more leaping from the boys
A discarded furry glove
The end of the pier
Fred on the beach
Fred takes another jump
Isobel takes a video
Harry McGap Face
The boys have one more leap
We hang around by the bogs
Under the pier
The tide rolls in
A view of Southwold in the setting sun
It's the first time we've been the only ones in
Isobel looks around the Under the Pier Show
Fred's in the Bathyscape
Tim Hunkin's Under the Pier Show
Harry looks into the Expressive Photobooth
Fred looks into the eyes of a fly
The sun sets behind the lighthouse
Isobel looks at the sea
The boys look at Tim Hunkin's water clock
One of Tim Hunkins' copper dudes
Harry in a comedy mirror
A life-belt
Some of the overflow dedication plaques
People wander the beach in the spray of the sea
Seagulls wheel around
Harry and Fred on the pier
The gang under the watchful eye of George Orwell
People on the hazy beach
The fish and chip place on the pier is closed
Line-art ice cream cones
Isobel looks at irreverent posters
Harry looks at Boris Johnson driving a fly
The 80s Retro Room
Isobel in the amusement arcade
Isobel does the 2p coin pushers
Harry and Fred on the coin pushers
Fred roams around with tickets
The Covid-quiet amusement arcade
Isobel waves around her ticket winnings
Harry feed the ticket eater
We leave the amusement arcade
We head back to the car
The empty car park
Southwold Pier in the dusk
Beach huts in the car park
A lone swan floats around by the tea rooms
Beach huts in the car park
Saturn and Jupiter are nearly together
Saturn, Jupiter and its moons
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A return to Southwold pier
