10/08/20 - Aldeburgh and the White Hart Inn

Distance - 6 Miles

Geocaches - 2

Walk Inspiration - Holiday Which

Today's walk starts at Aldeburgh's Moot Hall - a C17th building where the town elders gathered to decide on important civic issues.   No need to decide where the post walk refreshment will be.   There is a single Good Beer Guide Tick available in town.  Lets hope its an early opener, as once again, we are up with the larks in an attempt to beat the heat.

Moot Hall - Starting Point for Today's Walk

No navigational problems as we make our way to Thorpeness - following the cycle path or shore line for a couple of miles.

Looking back to Aldeburgh avoids having Sizewell nuclear reactor in shot

Thorpeness is a pretty little village - a huge pub dominating the village green.   Somehow, we manage to find the Windmill but fail to spot the House in the Clouds.   I cannot even blame cloud cover for this oversight.

House in the Clouds is Nearby

Our way back skirts a golf course and provides much needed shade before a little road walking leads to a disused railway.

Shady Golf Course Walking

Guide dog Abi enjoys her free run.  We enjoy her having her free run.  This is until she disappears into the undergrowth and emerges like one of those cormorants that has fallen foul of an oil slick.

We have a plan to get her clean in the sea but not until she has completed the walk of shame through the caravan park.   Other dog walkers know she has been in the "ditch".

Shipping Disaster News Item

But an easy way to get her clean

All refreshed, we have an hour to kill before the bolt is scrapped back at the White Hart.   In the time of a global pandemic, you would not believe the things that people will queue for.  Tat shops, the coffee shops and unbelievably the Co-Op.

The true professionals are setup in the White Hart beer garden.  Tasks are divided up - half the party queue at the chip shop, the other half at the front door of the pub.  Those with experience get their dinner and Adnams bang on 12:05am.  We consider taking up the offer of fetching chips into the beer garden but give up when the queue is at least 40 deep.

The pub - a traditional single roomer - offering Adnams Bitter, Broadside and Ghost Ship.

Mrs M gets into the spirit of things and comments of the disappointing lack of head and lacings.

There is a reason I married her.

Aldeburgh's Good Beer Tick - White Hart