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6. Get Britten Fever — Aldeburgh and Snape

One of the country's great concert halls is in the middle of the Suffolk marshland.
Image: Snape Maltings

Train to Saxmundham, then 25 min bus (to Aldeburgh). 10 min taxi between Aldeburgh and Snape

The great composer Benjamin Britten lived with his lover Peter Pears in the Red House in the
coastal town of Aldeburgh — and you can get a glimpse into their lives at the intimate house
museum it's been turned into. The pair's great legacy in this neck of the woods, though, was the

founding of the Aldeburgh Festival — a summertime bacchanalia of music and arts, now hosted in
various venues in Aldeburgh, and at nearby Snape, where Britten oversaw the conversion of an

old maltings into one of the country's finest concert halls. There's music and culture aplenty year-
round, plus lashings of picturesque marshland — inhabited by otters, owls (and snakes!) for

roaming.