Sutton Hoo

 19 April 2021

Weather: Amazing. Sunny all day and pretty hot.

MP3 track of the day - walk 500 miles - Proclaimers

There was a lot of activity this morning. My parents seemed to be getting ready quickly. I was picked up and surprise, surprise back in the car seat. Secretly I didn’t mind. For some reason I was really tired and I slept all the way to a place called Sutton Hoo (2hrs and 15 minutes away).

My mum awoke me as she put me in my pushchair. First of all we headed to a big helmet of an Anglo-Saxon (whatever that is). We entered the site to find a model of the boats structure which was found here in 1939. There was a film called ‘The dig’ which is why my parents wanted to come. I didn’t watch it as I was having too much fun in my jumper-too. 1,400 years ago an Anglo-Saxon king was buried here with a lot of treasure. We saw the house the owner of the land lived in from the outside before visiting the burial mound site. We then took a rather bumpy walk around the site before stopping in the house’s grounds to have a picnic. We were on a hill and we could see the burial mounds to our left, and the river down below in front. Best of all, I could crawl around for ages on a blanket and the grass. If this is a holiday then, I like them.

All too soon we were back in the car but, only for 40 minutes. We stopped off at a place called Southwald. I think dad drove the wrong way as it looked as though we were driving on the beach at one point. It was so bumpy. Southwald is very nice. I fell asleep and, once again, my parents ate fish and chips without telling me! I heard them say that these were good too! Mum bought a mug and dad some posh local chocolates. I decided to save my money for later.

It was now 5:30pm and we were miles from home. I decided to stay awake as dad said that he was taking the coast road. There was a lovely view all the way - well a part from a place called ‘Great Yarmouth’ - back to the caravan.

Once back I had a bit of a crawl before bed time. Mum and dad watched Senna but I declined the offer to stay and watch as it would finish at midnight.

Toodle pip!