A Birthday Lunch in Felixstowe, Suffolk - 26th May 2026

By way of a birthday activity, and to escape the 32°C heat, we head over to Felixstowe, where we start with lunch in our favourite Italian restaurant - Alba Chiarra, right on the sea front. After that, we go for a short walk up and down the promenade, where it appears that most of the entire teenager population of Suffolk is hanging out on the beachg, in various combinations of unsuitable dress and sunburn.

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There's nice bruschetta for a starter

There's nice bruschetta for a starter

Harry gets stuck in to his game ragu pasta

Isobel shows off her fancy risotto

Harry's on his phone

Someone's got a lot of cardboard boxes

Isobel comes back from the deli section

The sadly-derelict Felixstowe pier

The entire teenage population of Suffolk is out

A nice sequence of colours on the beach huts

The promenade is very busy

The beach at Felixstowe

The Undercliffe promenade

We walk back past the Alba Chiarra

The sea almost blends with the horizon

Isobel and Harry outside the new public bogs

Climbing the steps to the clifftop

Flowers on the cliff

A view of the pier

1900s buildings on Bent Hill

An empty shop

Isobel heads out of Onion Records

The fish and chip shop on Orwell Road

The A14 is still hosed on the eastbound side