Around Suffolk and Norfolk 19th-22nd July
I slept well on the ferry. The North Sea was as calm as could be and there was a holiday atmosphere on deck as the sun went down. Leaving Hoek van Holland In the morning as we slid into the docks at Harwich it was a grey, drizzly Sunday morning. The whole of the Harwich old town was closed, but then, it was very early, so I had some breakfast in a seaside shelter and admired the run-down, crumbling seaside architecture while I waited for the Harwich harbour ferry to take me across to Felixstowe. Harwich Breakfast spot Luckily the pier had a nice little cafe beside it where a small group of travellers was waiting to cross, among them a Dutch couple who came regularly to Suffolk on their bikes to escape the overcrowded Dutch bike paths. They loved the fact that in Suffolk you can cycle all day on the dense network of small country lanes and hardly see a car - or another cyclist. After my own experience I had a lot of sympathy with them. Harwich harbour ...