England 2020: Day 7, Part 1 (Eye to Southwold)

 Our wonderful friends spent the day touring us around East Anglia...

 Sheep...

 Sheep and more sheep...

 LOTS OF SHEEP!

 Our first destination: Southwold, on the eastern coast.

This is St. Edmund's. St. Edmund was a 9th-century martyr (tied to a tree, shot with arrows, then beheaded. 

 Love these needlepointed kneeler cushions.

 St. Edmund.

 Southwold is a really really lovely little town.

 Beach huts: these are passed down through families, apparently (though you can also rent them). They are for you to change into your "bathing costume," get in out of the sun and wind, and have a snack.

 Southwold Lighthouse, built in 1887 and still a working lighthouse for ships on the North Sea.

 This is Southwold Jack (a replica at Adnam's--this is now a trademark symbol of Adnam's Brewery): the figure is part of a 15th-century mechanical clock made to strike on the hour...the original figure is inside the church by the nave. He is a soldier dressed in a uniform from the time of the War of the Roses.

 Cheshire cat?

Yes, please, I'd like to go live in the Corner Cottage in Southwold!