title	A Return to the Beach, Southwold, Suffolk - 20th December 2020
intro	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.
imgp4836	A return to Southwold pier
imgp4837	Looking down the hazy beach
imgp4844	Isobel, Harry and Fred on the promenade
imgp4857	The boys leap off the sea wall
imgp4867	Fred does another leap
imgp4869	Walking along the promenade
imgp4872	Harry hurls himself off the wall
imgp4881	Fred considers the next jump
imgp4884	Isobel has a go too
imgp4888	A seagull whirls around
imgp4890	Harry leans on a groyne and stares out to sea
imgp4897	Fred has a little lie down
imgp4898	The lighthouse on St. James Green
imgp4899	Wow Let it Rock vintage shop in Southwold
imgp4900	We queue up for fish and chips at Mark's
imgp4902	A peeling "out" sign on Mark's chipper
imgp4903	We order some food
imgp4904	We follow the Covid signs to outside
imgp4905	Walking out through cleared-out restaurant
imgp4907	Outside Mark's fish and chips
imgp4909	Fred and Harry hang around
imgp4911	Looking down Station Road
imgp4912	A neon Fish and Chip sign
imgp4913	Fred looks around
imgp4915	The sadly closed Lord Nelson pub
imgp4917	We eat our grub outside the Sailor's Reading Room
imgp4920	Looking up East Street
imgp4926	It's only 89 nautical miles to Hoek van Holland
imgp4928	Down to the beach
imgp4934	There's more leaping from the boys
imgp4937	A discarded furry glove
imgp4940	The end of the pier
imgp4941	Fred on the beach
imgp4942	Fred takes another jump
imgp4946	Isobel takes a video
imgp4956	Harry McGap Face
imgp4957	The boys have one more leap
imgp4959	We hang around by the bogs
imgp4969	Under the pier
imgp4972	The tide rolls in
imgp4976	A view of Southwold in the setting sun
imgp4978	It's the first time we've been the only ones in
imgp4981	Isobel looks around the Under the Pier Show
imgp4982	Fred's in the Bathyscape
imgp4984	Tim Hunkin's Under the Pier Show
imgp4985	Harry looks into the Expressive Photobooth
imgp4986	Fred looks into the eyes of a fly
imgp4989	The sun sets behind the lighthouse
imgp4990	Isobel looks at the sea
imgp4991	The boys look at Tim Hunkin's water clock
imgp4992	One of Tim Hunkins' copper dudes
imgp4996	Harry in a comedy mirror
imgp4999	A life-belt
imgp5000	Some of the overflow dedication plaques
imgp5005	People wander the beach in the spray of the sea
imgp5012	Seagulls wheel around
imgp5024	Harry and Fred on the pier
imgp5030	The gang under the watchful eye of George Orwell
imgp5037	People on the hazy beach
imgp5039	The fish and chip place on the pier is closed
imgp5040	Line-art ice cream cones
imgp5041	Isobel looks at irreverent posters
imgp5043	Harry looks at Boris Johnson driving a fly
imgp5047	The 80s Retro Room
imgp5048	Isobel in the amusement arcade
imgp5049	Isobel does the 2p coin pushers
imgp5050	Harry and Fred on the coin pushers
imgp5051	Fred roams around with tickets
imgp5056	The Covid-quiet amusement arcade
imgp5060	Isobel waves around her ticket winnings
imgp5063	Harry feed the ticket eater
imgp5064	We leave the amusement arcade
imgp5066	We head back to the car
imgp5068	The empty car park
imgp5070	Southwold Pier in the dusk
imgp5072	Beach huts in the car park
imgp5074	A lone swan floats around by the tea rooms
imgp5077	Beach huts in the car park
imgp5080	Saturn and Jupiter are nearly together
imgp5094	Saturn, Jupiter and its moons