title	A Night at the Crown Hotel, Southwold, Suffolk - 8th November 2019
intro	As part of Isobel's birthday, we get to do a child-free night off at the Crown Hotel in Southwold, complete with dinner and a couple of trips to the Lord Nelson pub for pre-dinner beers and a post-dinner night cap. We've even got the cool in-the-roof suite we'd had on a previous visit, with its two bathrooms and mini lounge. The next day we have a good few hours to wander around the town, walk along the beach, and visit the Nelson again - this time for lunch, albeit without the beer. The Nelson has recently started serving something of a curiosity: a two foot long (as in 24", or around 60cm) sausage in a suitably-oversized roll, which the bloke next to us orders and actually manages to eat. As he said: "it's a man-versus-food sort of thing". Before that, there's a big all-hands meeting at the office in London, featuring the head of Microsoft UK - Cindy Rose.
imgc5337	People mingle before the meeting on Level 5
imgc5338	The Level 5 canteen as a meeting room
imgc5339	The all-hands is about to kick off in the canteen
imgp7516	The Lord Nelson pub in Southwold. Oh yes.
imgp7522	Beams of light spill out from the lighthouse
imgp7527	The constellation of Orion rises over the sea
imgp7528	Inside the Lord Nelson, where we've stopped again
imgp7530	A fine selection of Adnams beers
imgp7532	Someone peers into the window of Southwold Books
imgp7535	Activity on the high street
imgp7536	Our room for the night
imgp7538	Isobel in the ante-room/lounge
imgp7539	Funky cushion covering
imgp7543	A view from the window on the landing
imgp7544	The overflow dining room, and epic wooden bench
imgp7546	We visit the "Wow" vintage shop
imgp7547	Nosher's childhood radio - a Binatone Worldstar
imgp7548	Outside Wow Vintage Southwold
imgp7549	The former Lloyds Bank would make a good hotel
imgp7550	Some original green tiles on Queen Street pharmacy
imgp7551	The smaller of Adnams' two shops in the town
imgp7552	The view from South Green to Walberswick
imgp7553	On the beach
imgp7554	Isobel on the beach
imgp7555	A seagull perches on a groyne
imgp7558	Isobel walks past the closed-for-winter café
imgp7559	The view to the pier
imgp7560	The pavillion is getting its flat roof repaired
imgp7561	A load of roof/floor boards are teleported up
imgp7562	The car park is somewhat emptier than summer
imgp7563	Southwold wheelie bins in an alley
imgp7564	Adnams brewery and copper house
imgp7567	Defend they ryghts
imgp7569	Our pad for the night - The Crown Hotel
imgp7570	A ship's figurehead on the wall of Douglas House
imgp7571	A bunch of semi-derelict lock-up garages
imgp7572	A cool hedgehog sculpture, and a Hog Hotel advert
imgp7573	Mark's fish and chip shop
imgp7574	Southwold post office
imgp7575	Iosobel roams around in the Adnams shop
imgp7576	An old K6 phonebox is now a defibrilator point
imgp7577	A big dog/little dog face-off
imgp7581	Another view of the lighthouse
imgp7582	The Lord Nelson, from the best place to be: inside
imgp7583	Isobel, and the guy who ate the two-foot sausage
imgp7584	Looking back at the Lord Nelson
imgp7585	Someone's stuck a wooden fork into an old wooden post
imgp7586	Isobel on the promenade
imgp7588	A right-of-way notice featuring the act from 1932
imgp7589	It's dustbin city near the public bogs outside the pavillion