Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (2025)
Why
Because we need an EMF gap year escape and it sounds like fun.
What
- Kite flying (well, trying to)
- Visit Tim Hunkin’s Under the Pier Show on Southwold Pier
- Visit the radar archaeology of Orford Ness
- Visit Bawdsey Radar Museum
Other things in the area:
- Dunwich, the place that isn't there (but has a nice beach and a great fish and chip shop).
- Sizewel Nuclear Reactor Vistor's Centre)
- Snape Maltings Concert Hall established by Benjamin Britten
- Snape Marshes Nature Reserve
- Traffic queues for miles at Elveden (Thetford Forest) Centre Parcs on change over day!
- Framlingham -- just because it sounds like a place out of the game Transport Tycoon.
- Bury St Edmunds (en route) -- historic town associated with the Magna Carta
- Rendlesham Forest
- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (and the rest)
- Aldham St Mary -- The round church from "Detectorists"
When
TBD -- June/July time avoiding 1st -- 6th June (half term) and being wary of 13th -- 29th June (Aldeburgh Festival)
How
Cheap and cheerful accommodation, probably camping, hostel or similar. It isn't practical by public transport so ... car share.
Actually, you can train+cycle it.
- Train to Ipswich / Wickham Market then a 26 / 9 mile cycle to Orford Ness
- or ... Train to Halesworth and a 10 mile cycle to Southwold Pier.
- It is then about 25 miles by bike from Orford Ness to Southwold.
- Other variants available to the inquisitive.
Who
| Who | Has Car, willing to drive N | Has not car. | In Car music |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan | 4 | - | - |
| Aaron | - | Affirmative | Music Aaron Likes, or silence |
| Shane (and probably Tim?) | - | Affirmative | - |
| Steve & Candice | - | Affirmative | - |