After visiting Southwold we had another night at the Kessingland site as we had arranged to meet the editor of our sailing association quarterly newsletter who lives at Beccles, not far away. Although we had communicated by emails for some years we had never met so thought we would take the opportunity to do so.
Richard spent a couple of hours with us and it was a really pleasurable time chatting away as if we had known each other for years. He had to go to a meeting in Wymondham so after he had left Sue and I took a walk through the village and down to the beach. Oh dear, a pub overlooked it so we stopped for lunch as well. I am sure there are lovely beaches along this coast but at high water only the shingle bank at the top was visible.
Wednesday saw us heading for Wickham Market where Ian Clays (a good friend of ours) sister lives. We spent an enjoyable couple of hours with Sheila before heading on to our site for the night at Polstead. This was another lovely site and after a walk around the village / area we headed for the pub about two hundred yards away from the site to take advantage of their steak night offer, it was delicious.
Kersey main street with More Time
Thursday (after a quite frosty start) we left site and headed for Kersey (just outside Hadleigh) which was described as ‘a postcard English village’, it didn’t disappoint. It even had a ford in the middle of the main street. From here we headed for Lavenham which has an abundance of medieval timbered buildings, some more upright than others. It was lovely walking around the town in the warm sunshine exploring the various turnings and side roads before heading on again.
Lavenham house
Flatford Mill & Sue
This time we were heading for East Bergholt which is where the artist John Constable lived. It is on the edge of ‘Constable Country’ and after parking in the free car park (yes, they do still exist) behind The Red Lion pub we walked to Flatford Mill and explored a little around there. Coffee and a scone in the National Trust café there saw us ready to head back to More Time via a little artisan bakers we had spotted on the way out of the village. Arriving about 15 minutes before closing our choice was limited but the cakes we got were delicious. As we passed the church we were remarking about how odd it was for a church not to have a tower or steeple. It suddenly occurred to me why this was. In the churchyard we found the Bell cage, a strong timber house for the bells built on the ground. It was built as a ‘temporary’ construction in 1531 and remains in use today. What with this and the sundial on the side of the church instead of the usual clock it is altogether rather unusual.
We only had a short drive from there to our site for the night at Ardleigh, just across the border in Essex.
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