Jack and Katrina's Place

After a busy day in Cambridge we headed East to the Suffolk Coast to stay the night in Felixstowe. Although we got there late in the day and did a couple of laps of the town trying to find the B&B, Felixstowe was unexpectedly charming, like a small version of Scarborough, or a big version of St Heliers (Nz) Built in the late 1800's, grand and not so grand, turn of the century victorian brick villas. The old Great Eastern railway station has survived on high street as a small shopping mall. The platforms have been truncated, but across the carpark the last wrought iron canopied remnant survives as the 'new' British Rail Station. The esplanade is classic brit seaside, pebbles, piers, groynes and bathing sheds. The Fish&Chips however, are RUBBISH! For a start the menu is written in inch high letters on a board about as big as this laptop, so the selection is woeful. Particularly if you're travelling with a sometime vegetarian. I wonder how the locals would take it if a proper kiwi takeaway with the 12 foot wide menu board were to open up? Could it be a business oppurtunity? I strangely fancied living in Felixstowe, beside a brooding north sea, it's a lot less maddning than London. nuff said, here's the pics.