This new, expanded and thoroughly updated third edition of Suffolk
(Slow Travel), part of Bradt's award-winning series of Slow travel
guides to UK regions, remains the only full-blown standalone guide
to this gentle but beguiling county. Expert local author Laurence
Mitchell helps visitors discover what makes Suffolk tick, combining
personal insights, enjoyable anecdotes and up-to-date information
on the best places to visit, stay and eat. Covering both popular
sights and places beyond the usual tourist trail, he caters for
walkers, cyclists, families, foodies, culture vultures and wildlife
lovers alike. Helped by its proximity to London and Cambridge,
Suffolk is a popular holiday destination. Events such as the
Latitude festival and the Aldeburgh Music Festival at Britten's
Snape Maltings keep the county's profile buoyant. Despite being
comparatively low-lying, Suffolk boasts varied landscapes, from
undulating farmland and sandy heaths to extensive forests,
important nature reserves (including Minsmere, for three years the
base of BBC Springwatch) and soft, dreamy coastal landscapes
comprising river estuaries, remote marshes, reed-beds, shingle
beaches (notably Shingle Street, with its myth of World War II
invasions) and dunes. Suffolk's coastal towns and villages -
Southwold with its old-fashioned pier and colourful beach huts, but
also Aldeburgh, Orford, Walberswick and Dunwich - are steeped in
art heritage, with links to artists including Maggi Hambling, John
Piper, Philip Wilson Steer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Venturing
inland, you can make for Constable Country and the Stour valley,
Bury St Edmunds, Framlingham, Bungay, Beccles or Halesworth.
Alternatively, you can visit some of Suffolk's wealth of medieval
churches, learn of Rendlesham's UFOs or revere Suffolk's
Anglo-Saxon heritage, notably the medieval ceremonial burial site
at Sutton Hoo (whose discovery stars in the 2021 film The Dig) and
the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow. This guide
makes a virtue of being selective, pointing readers to the cream of
the area. It is organised into locales to encourage 'stay put'
tourism and thorough exploration. It suggests options for car-free
travel: walking, cycling, river boats, buses and trains. Written in
an entertaining yet authoritative style, Bradt's Suffolk (Slow
Travel) is the ideal companion with which to discover this county.
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