Walberswick
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I do. Lots.
It's a great place to start and finish a bike ride. There are a couple of routes below, but, in all honesty, you can't miss.
Two small warning notes.
I'd avoid the A1095 from Southwold to the A12. Narrow, lots of turns, poor visibility and high speed wankpanzers by the dozen.
If you hit sand on the road, then change down, freewheel, let the sand take the speed out of the bike, and then pedal gently. Some sand drifts on roads quite a way inland can run for fifty metres.
On the plus side. The Anchor in Walberswick is a decent pub. The Sole Bay Inn in Southwold is pretty good, but the Lord Nelson is rammed, although you can take your pint to the benches overlooking the beach. The bar at the Swan is very nice, and, yes, you can go in wearing lycra. Avoid the Red Lion. The ferry to Southwold is a must. The ferry to Felixstowe (see below) is fun. Wickham Market, Beccles and Bungay are good looking towns - who knew that Chateaubriand lived in Beccles? Halesworth is not so pretty. There's a bike hire place in Southwold that has tools if the need arises, and a cycle hire place in Darsham that is hard to find. The view of the marshes from the bridge over the Blyth (reached from Palmers Green) is wonderful, but never more wonderful than in the evening. The little church at Uggeshall is lovely. Oh - watch 'Drowning by Numbers' before you go.
Here's the links to the routes
https://www.plotaroute.com/route/295542 76 miles
https://www.plotaroute.com/route/295540 35 miles
I'd also recommend an out and back to Aldeburgh via Leiston, and tacking a diversion to Beccles on to the Bungay route.
ps - impressed you found marijuana in France. Chapeau!
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Hi there, thanks for your quick and informative reply! It sounds like a lovely area and just hope we continue with the warm weather so to get a ride or two in. The A1095 road to avoid, it seems to be the only road which takes you to the A12 to get back to Walbers', unless you go on that B1126. Is that right? just wanted to check as i dont know the area at all. Is the A12 ok to be on too as it looks like the only main road about and I imagine busy with traffic?
The routes looks nice, the longer route I may turn off at Tangham to save 20 odd miles. Is it pretty flat? loos ok on the map profile. The shorter 35mile route looks nice and probably something more relaxing like that I may prefer to do as it is nearing the end of the season. Never seen that TV show, is it filmed down there then?
LOL yes, well I guess it is for medicinal purposes? It wasn't that far from Mont-saint-michelle, just by that windmill. Didn't give any a try lol. Never cycled in Italy, actually, never peen to Italy!
It depends which way you're coming from, but the B1387 is the simplest way in to Walberswick - you don't rely on the ferry. And, you're right - Suffolk is pretty flat throughout. The A12 is not as fierce as it used to be because there's a 40mph limit on most of it (but not the dual carriageway sections from Martlesham down to the A14).
Drowning by Numbers is a film, almost thirty years old now. It was shot in Southwold, Kessingland and Walberswick. The story is about three women drowning their husbands, although it might be that the three women are the same woman. Either way the husbands end up very wet and very dead. There are sackbutts and watertowers - watertowers being a Greenaway obsession. Here's the beginning.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSW0hOqA4sk
My favourite is 58 Kracklite.
Drowning by Numbers is a film, almost thirty years old now. It was shot in Southwold, Kessingland and Walberswick. The story is about three women drowning their husbands, although it might be that the three women are the same woman. Either way the husbands end up very wet and very dead. There are sackbutts and watertowers - watertowers being a Greenaway obsession. Here's the beginning.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSW0hOqA4sk
My favourite is 58 Kracklite.
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+1 to visit The Anchor .
Just enjoy exploring the lanes. Start by going to Dunwich, have a sit on the shingle, then carry on down the coast exploring all the little villages.
Just enjoy exploring the lanes. Start by going to Dunwich, have a sit on the shingle, then carry on down the coast exploring all the little villages.