Southwold is a typical British seaside town of 50 years ago - quaint, old fashioned and a little twee. It has a large ratio of holiday houses to resident's houses, and a large selection of picturesque beach huts along the beach. The weather is always poor when we visit - it's traditional....
This year, as every year, we went to the top of the light house, played penny shove in the arcade, tried to sunbathe on the sandy / pebbly beach (often shivering in our woolies), tried out our putting skills on the putting green, and walked along to the harbour where we went crabbing with bacon bait.
Unlike previous years, the boys were old enough to play happily in the sea without us - they had a go at body boarding, and spent hours in the sea, returning to the shore only for food, and when they had literally turned blue with the cold!
Each year we rent a tiny cottage, this year the cottage was slightly larger, but was lacking in one vital thing (according to the kids anyway...) - a TV. So our evenings were spent playing monopoly, reading, and (for the kids) playing portable electronic games. Luckily the pub was only 50 metres away, so a trip to the pub for the famous Adnams beer was a regular event (we even took some home with us)
