Forum menu
Southwold - Things ...
 

[Closed] Southwold - Things to do with the family.

Posts: 23340
Full Member
Topic starter
 
[#7117386]

Going in a few weeks. Any recommendations for things to do within an hours drive? We're not taking bikes apart from kiddie ones.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 12:31 pm
 IHN
Posts: 20129
Full Member
 

Install family on beach.

Take yourself to the Adnams brewery and brewery tap pub (who's name escapes me, The Ship?) for a few hours.

Happy to help.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 12:54 pm
Posts: 11402
Free Member
 

orford & framlingham castles, pond yachts @ Aldeburgh. Beer in the nelson, Dunwich (the town that slipped into the sea) and Minsmere nature reserve. Theres the [url= http://www.oasiscamelpark.co.uk/ ]camel center[/url] (very pricey) oh and an hour by car out there doesn't get you very far ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:03 pm
Posts: 5185
Full Member
 

http://www.underthepier.com/


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:09 pm
Posts: 11402
Free Member
 

[url= http://www.hippersons.co.uk/dayboats ]electric day boat out[/url] of Beccles potter upto [url= http://www.geldestonlocks.co.uk/ ]the Locks Inn[/url] and back


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:22 pm
Posts: 11
Free Member
 

Crabbing at Walberswick though the best place we ever found was Felixtowe Ferry - probably too far.

Orford + 1

Minsmere

Fish and Chips in Aldeburgh tend to be pretty good.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:29 pm
Posts: 4670
Full Member
 

Fish and Chips in Aldeburgh if your idea of a good time is spending 3 hours in a queue with a bunch of Joules/Burberry/Jack Wills wearing Range Rover Sport owners. ๐Ÿ˜‰

[b]Do[/b] bring your bike and hit the trails at Tunstall Forest. Snape Maltings is on hand if the rest of the family need something to do. ๐Ÿ˜† http://www.snapemaltings.co.uk/

Otherwise....

Africa Alive in Kessingland http://africa-alive.co.uk/
Stonham Barns for Birds of Prey http://stonham-barns.co.uk/
Ben****ers Coldwar Museum http://www.bcwm.org.uk/ (You'll then be close to Rendlesham Forest Trails)


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:47 pm
Posts: 9
Free Member
 

The Swan in Southwold is the brewery tap for Adnams. Lovely it is too.

The beach is always nice, as is a walk along the coast.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:53 pm
Posts: 13349
Free Member
 

Sutton Hoo, the Maltings at Snape (art, tat and a good cafe), the Long Shop at Leiston (industrial mass production started here), Thorpness for the boats on the Mere. Food at Westleton Crown is quite good.

Any fule kno that fish and chips are best from the cafe on Dunwich beach.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 1:54 pm
Posts: 46086
Free Member
 

Install family on beach.

Take yourself to the Adnams brewery and brewery tap pub (who's name escapes me, The Ship?) for a few hours.

Happy to help.

It worked for me.
With added icecream. 8)


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 2:06 pm
 nach
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

simon_g got there first. Unless you really hate things that are a bit weird, Tim Hunkin's arcade is fantastic.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 2:18 pm
Posts: 1015
Free Member
 

Yep, Under The Pier is completely bonkers-and great fun! Thorpeness is worth a visit just to take in it's strangeness as a purpose built holiday village. It has a nice boating lake and of course the "House in the Clouds"


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 2:43 pm
Posts: 898
Free Member
 

We were told to go to Alderburgh for fish and chips; best in the world! Well, they're OK but not worth the queue and not worth a special trip. Better are the fish smokies on the prom. Now they are worth the effort.


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 4:40 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Transport Museum at Carlton Colville...................

Canoeing on the Waveney........[url= http://www.enjoythebroads.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/Geldeston%20CT%20aw%203%20pages.pdf ]Rowan Craft Geldeston[/url]

Great food at the Wherry Inn, Geldeston(My local).


 
Posted : 08/06/2015 6:52 pm