Felixstowe Market

Sunday October 17th
This morning we decided to visit the Felixstowe market. This is a huge market held down on the waterfront area every Sunday. It has the usual food and flowers but also has lots of clothes and household goods and tools. I was looking for a hand held set of scales so that we would be able to our weigh our bags. With careful searching i finally found one lying in a box of other assorted items. It was the only one I managed to see, so I snapped it up quickly. This market has stuff that must have been there for 10 years. But someone will come along one day and find the one thing they are looking are. It will be useful to get an idea of how much our bags weigh when we actually come to pack. I think some of the stuff they have down there falls off the back of truck leaving the port.

We had arranged to have a pub meal with our friends that we had met on the Christmas in Austria trip in 2001, so we drove on to their place and all went out together. It was a great to catch up again. Margaret and Richard have done a lot of travelling since we first met them and they gave a their secrets of booking trips online. There are fantastic packages to be found out there so we stored that information away for next time.

The evenings are cooling down fast now so we didn’t stay too late and headed back to Ann’s for our last evening with her and a quiet early night.