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The summer has disrupted our weekly local walks project, so time to get back to it. But first, another weekend away in Suffolk…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

18 September – Southwold<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

3.75 miles. Walk 2 in the Suffolk Circular walks<\/a> book. From Southwold pier, circling the town anti-clockwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy and I spent an early-Autumn campervan weekend in Suffolk (we’d recommend the Haw Tree Farm<\/a> campsite) and opted to get our post-summer walking going again with a fairly short, easy circuit around the edge of the pretty seaside town of Southwold, leaving plenty of time and energy for lunch, a wander around the town itself, and a trip to Dunwich beach in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The route sets out from Southwold Pier and, in all honesty, I found the first mile or so pretty uninspiring – avoiding the nettles while walking through scrubland with views only of edge-of-town housing. But as you emerge onto the banks with views across the marshes and then walk along the River Blyth to Southwold Harbour it becomes much more interesting. Here, there is plenty going on, with boats and riverside food stalls. Anticipating a very pleasant campsite supper that evening, we bought fresh fish from one of the fish stalls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The footbridge to Walberswick is closed for repairs at the moment, but the small ferryboat was running and, on another day, this might make a good extension to the walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead we turned back into the town and completed the route by walking the full length of the promenade above the beach – a very nice walk as the sun came out, and good preparation for lunch in the Crown Inn<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n