Felixstowe Walk

This has become a bit of a family tradition. On Christmas Eve Dawn likes to clean the house for Christmas Day and, many years ago. I decided it would be good to get me and the kids out of the way to let her get on with it. And where better to go than to have a walk by the sea? And so, that's what we do. This was our route...

And here are a few of my photos...

Ready to walk.

 There were plenty others out enjoying the sunshine. Now, how many dogs were in there?

 

Except when it was closed for a while, we always stop for a drink at the Spa Pavilion Theatre cafe.

Here's William photographing his hot chocolate. A bit late. He'd already eaten the cream and marshmallows.

We carried on to the end of the path before climbing the steps and returning. Here is the view towards North Felixstowe and the martello tower with Bawdsey Manor across the River Deben in the distance.

Back at the front, we returned via the seafront gardens,

The wicker family had been given a Christmas makeover.

We were lucky this year with having mild sunny weather. And the sea was calm too.

Looking for fish in the pond.

Shortly before we were back at the car we stopped, as always, for fish and chips here.

There were some cheeky starlings about looking for scraps.

So that was a lovely walk and bit of fresh air. Oh. And how many dogs were there? 86. You can see more of my photos here on Flick and more details of out walk here on MapMyWalk. So now we  are all ready for Christmas... I think.