title A "Minimoon" and an Adnams Brewery Trip, Southwold, Suffolk - 7th July 2010 intro Gemma - one of "The Mommies" - offers to look after The Boy for three nights, and so Nosher and Isobel head over to Southwold in the MX-5, with the roof down. We stay at The Swan Hotel in the middle of town, and spend a very pleasant couple of days having a "mini-honeymoon" just hanging around, visiting the beach and the pubs and even getting a trip around the Adnams Brewery - a kind of beer shrine. imgp2283 The view from the hotel window imgp2285 Flowers in the market, and the Swan Hotel imgp2286 Wooden ducks imgp2287 Isobel picks a couple of mini-shoulder-shawls imgp2288 Isobel's handbag is covered in beetles imgp2289 Isobel on the prom at Southwold imgp2292 A large chunk of driftwood on the beach imgp2294 Three beach huts stand alone imgp2296 Southwold beach huts imgp2297 We stop at the Gun Hill Café imgp2299 A scooter is a bit infested with mini beetles imgp2301 The Take It Eeasy beach hut imgp2303 Isobel meets a small dog on the promenade imgp2305 Aaiiieeeeee! imgp2306 A lifeguard vest is infested with mini beeetles imgp2307 By Tim Hunkin's water clock imgp2314 Isobel looks through the quantum tunneling telescope imgp2321 Nosher and Isobel on Southwold Pier imgp2325 A triangular window imgp2329 Southwold from the pier imgp2331 Isobel has a go at the coin push thing imgp2333 More action, 2 pence at a time imgp2336 Red benches on the promenade imgp2337 The lighthouse on St. James Green imgp2338 One of our pub stops: the Sole Bay Inn imgp2339 Lunch at the Lord Nelson imgp2341 Looking down the street at the Nelson imgp2342 Isobel operates the old-school lifts imgp2344 Isobel waits in the lift in The Swan Hotel imgp2345 Concertina doors on an old lift imgp2347 Walking down the corridor to the room imgp2349 Another view of the lighthouse from our room imgp2356 Down on the quay, an old boat called Xanadu imgp2358 We wait for fish 'n' chips at the Harbour Inn imgp2359 Isobel heads out onto the common imgp2360 Crossing a stream on the footpath back to Southwold imgp2368 Looking back over the river towards Walberswick imgp2370 Cows on the common imgp2378 At the Red Lion on South Green imgp2380 The lighthouse and Sole Bay Inn imgp2384 Nosher in the Sole Bay Inn imgp2385 A view out of the hotel window imgp2388 The seafront, and the pier imgp2392 A random Chinese lantern floats by imgp2393 The seafront at night, with the pier in the distance imgp2397 Isobel in the Drawing Room of the Swan Hotel imgp2399 The Swan's grand drawing room imgp2403 The view from the hotel window at night imgp2406 Isobel's on her phone in the hotel bedroom imgp2409 The Swan Hotel imgp2410 Southwold High Street imgp2412 Part of Adnams' bottling line imgp2414 The barrel-filling end of the brewing line imgp2419 Stainless steel pipes everywhere imgp2424 Peering in to a fermentation tank imgp2425 Isobel looks into tanks imgp2433 More stainless steel and tanks imgp2434 The view from the brewhouse imgp2436 Isobel roams around imgp2438 Maturation tanks - each holds 80,000 pints imgp2440 Peering into maturation tanks imgp2444 The tour continues imgp2446 The Adnams brewery bar imgp2447 Southwold church imgp2449 Some dude stares out to sea imgp2456 The sign at the Southwold Sailors' Reading Room imgp2457 Looking back down East Street