Blogs from Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Our last few hours in Paris and Europe and look what has happened to the weather after the last few days of overcast skies and occasional drizzly rain........yes the sun was out and shining brightly! We have an earlier start this morning as the train to London leaves at 9.13am and we need to give ourselves an hour for check in just in case we need to go through a detailed interview as to what we are going to be up to while we are in the UK,like happened 4 years ago. Sylvie has organised an early breakfast for us and has her husband ready with the Mercedes to take us to the Gare du Nord which is a big relief for us and we won't have to change trains if we took the subway. The ... read more

As part of my Peru training I have decided to do a bit of beach walking along the Suffolk coast.... Today I am walking from Lowestoft to Southwold... Initially I thought this would just be a good way to train however after seeing the amazing beauty of this area I can now say that I have fallen in love with this stretch of the UK. At around 4pm myself and Dee (my travel partner) set off from work to take on the 12 mile trek to Southwold. The first part of our walk took us along the Lowestoft sea front, a typical UK beach resort with golden sand and beach front B & B's.Moving from here we headed down to Pakefield, this was more interesting and for me more visually pleasing, first off the beach changed ... read more