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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A return to Southwold pier

A return to Southwold pier

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