Sizewell to Thorpeness 010710

A revisit of this lovely coastal walk. Park at Sizewell car park, £1 for 2+ hours.
There is an excellent Beach Cafe where you can enjoy homemade cake or Sausage and Chips. Its been run for some time by an excellent chap, always smiling with friendly, helpful staff. There are also public loos here too.
Turn south up to the black coastguard cottages where the path starts. This takes you along the top of the cliffs with good views in places. Look back to see Southwold and it's gleaming white lighthouse. Part of the path has been lost to erosion and we all hope that access to this wonderful coastline will remain open.
By a Christian activity centre the path dips down to the shoreline which hosts a rather amazing display of beach growing plants.
Further along there is a steep gully back up to the top of the cliffs. If you miss it you can still carry on along the shore to Thorpeness.
Taking the gully back to the top  of the cliffs takes you onto a piece of grassy common. Continue southwards to Thorpeness and you look to your right. You will see the "House in the Clouds" appear. I think this is such a great and wacky local landmark.
As you walk into Thorpeness you can enjoy all the different architecture which I love. Very English and very quirky!
By the Mere there are tearooms. Coffee and cake are just so important to walkers. They can enhance a very good walk into a walk of utter delight, to be relished in our memories as we relive the experience in our minds.

There is a route that takes you back over the common to Sizewell whose huge building structure means you will never be lost around here. Some of the tracks on this route past the golf course are dry, hard gravel and you may prefer to return to Sizewell back the way you came along the seashore and cliffs.. After all the views are great.
Stuart