title	A Birthday Lunch in Felixstowe, Suffolk - 26th May 2026
intro	By way of a birthday activity, and to escape the 32°C heat, we head over to Felixstowe, where we start with lunch in our favourite Italian restaurant - Alba Chiarra, right on the sea front. After that, we go for a short walk up and down the promenade, where it appears that most of the entire teenager population of Suffolk is hanging out on the beachg, in various combinations of unsuitable dress and sunburn.
imgp8792	There's nice bruschetta for a starter
imgp8796	Harry gets stuck in to his game ragu pasta
imgp8797	Isobel shows off her fancy risotto
imgp8800	Harry's on his phone
imgp8801	Someone's got a lot of cardboard boxes
imgp8803	Isobel comes back from the deli section
imgp8804	The sadly-derelict Felixstowe pier
imgp8805	The entire teenage population of Suffolk is out
imgp8806	A nice sequence of colours on the beach huts
imgp8807	The promenade is very busy
imgp8808	The beach at Felixstowe
imgp8809	The Undercliffe promenade
imgp8810	We walk back past the Alba Chiarra
imgp8811	The sea almost blends with the horizon
imgp8815	Isobel and Harry outside the new public bogs
imgp8817	Climbing the steps to the clifftop
imgp8818	Flowers on the cliff
imgp8820	A view of the pier
imgp8822	1900s buildings on Bent Hill
imgp8824	An empty shop
imgp8825	Isobel heads out of Onion Records
imgp8827	The fish and chip shop on Orwell Road
imgp8830	The A14 is still hosed on the eastbound side