Golden Wedding Anniversary Walk Series #3 of 3
My wife and I have just celebrated our Golden Wedding Anniversary and our family clubbed together to buy us two nights bed breakfast and evening meal at the hotel in Aldeburgh where we spent our first night of married life. Surprisingly, we had the same room as fifty years ago. Anyway, as a special present they bought us three unusual geocache containers to hide somewhere close to the hotel as an added memory so we had a walk on one of the days (in the rain I might add) down the spit and deposited the caches in what we thought were good hides going up in difficulty.
Aldeburgh is a lovely unspoilt part of the Suffolk Coast I I know that there is a rivalry between us Norfolkites and the Suffolk folk but credit where credit is due, the coastline is magnificent). Along the beach toward Thorpeness, where there is a raised house known as the House in the Clouds because of its height above the ground, there is a large shell structure which has been made from stainless steel and was placed in 2003 (and yes, it is still standing despite the high winds it has endured). The town sports a cinema which was built 101 years ago and is like Dr. Who’s Tardis; for the uninitiated it appears small from the outside but is quite large when you go in. In these days of Coronavirus, all the Government guidelines have been implemented so we were safe and guaranteed to have two seats empty either side of us and one seat in front and behind. Along the main street is an old Customs’ House which is easy to spot as it has around eight steps to walk up in order to go through the front door. Architecturally the town is magnificent with so many different styles. Although the town is a seaside town, and our hotel had just a narrow roadway between it and the beach, there are no amusement arcades to spoil it.
The beach has deep shingle shelves which make for good fishing and we saw a few examples of hardy fishermen braving the cold and rain with their tents and nightlights. In the morning we saw something even stranger, some men and women in their swimming costumes braving the extreme cold and wind and having an early morning dip—I like to think we are brave, but not that brave! If you want to build sandcastles then you are out of luck as most if not all of the beach is made up of shingle.
This cache is the third in the GWAW Series. We have had to change the type of cach as the original post has been changed . The cache is now made of resin and the log sheet is kept in a tube within the block.
Our children bought us three caches to hide somewhere near the hotel we went to for our wedding night so the hides are very meaningful to us. All three disappeared so we replaced them with similar ones but sadly they disappeared as well so we have replaced all three with less desirable ones in the hopes that they remain as we live some fifty miles away, are in our mid seventies and one of us is disabled.