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         DAYDREAMING OF THE NEXT TRIP:





          AN ENGLISH VILLAGE IN SUFFOLK WAITS, UNCHANGED


        by James Lileks               an old lighthouse, a pier and a long
                                      stretch of colorful beach houses for
            t’s a tiny village on the coast  the London crowd.
            that  checks  off  every  requisite   You can drive to Southwold
        I  of the classic English hamlet— from Walbers, but better to take
        minus the murders solved by a  the ferry: a single rowboat oared
        clever vicar or spinsterly knitting  by a member of a family that’s
        instructor.                   been going back and forth for
           Eighteenth-century  homes. generations. It’ll cost you a pound.
        Garden walls whose concrete is  The family dog sits in front as a
        studded with ancient shells from the  lookout.
        beach. A ruined church. A grocery   Walberswick is populated in
        store with a big, red, circular  part by refugees and retirees of
        mailbox outside. A village green  London’s artistic  circles, so you’ll
        where the summer fete is held, and  find an extraordinary collection of
        two pubs, the Anchor and the Bell.  talent meandering off to the beach.
        The ale is crisp and fresh, made  That fellow with the small dog in
        across the river in the larger seaside  his bike basket? One of England’s
        resort town of Southwold, home to  best soundtrack composers, and a












                                                                   boy-band sensation in the 1960s.  real  stargazing.  You  leave  the  pub  A ghostly carriage is said to ride the
                                                                   The amusing old lady at the Black  at closing time, wander down the  streets some night, hoofs clopping.
                                                                   Dog deli buying bread? Famed  dark road to your house, and if you   I was due to go back in June,
                                                                   actress and director. (And one of the  have the inclination you may head  but, well. You know. Perhaps at
                                                                   Freuds, you know.) Keira Knightley  toward the church, take the fork off  summer’s end. Two months isn’t
                                                                   has a place here. That fellow there at  Palmer’s Lane, and just sit in the  long to wait—and time moves at
                                                                   the pub directed “Love,  Actually.”  field and marvel at the innumerable  a different pace there. It’ll still be
                                                                   And so on.                    stars above.                 1690 at the church, 1960 at the
                                                                      But that’s just a quirky thing.   Just keep in mind that it’s  pub, and 2020 in the chic shop with
                                                                   Such talent is useful when you  regarded as one of the most  Wi-Fi. It’ll still be Walbers.   n
                                                                   want to put on a show at the  haunted villages in Suffolk. George
                                                                   Village Hall, but it’s not a place  Orwell reportedly saw a wraith in  ©2020 Star Tribune. Distributed by
                                                                   for stargazing. It’s a place for, well,  the church cemetery while visiting.   Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


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