The sole purpose of my trip was to spend time with my Granddad.  I was extremely surprised and pleased to meet my extended family.  Here are a few pics.

Granddad’s backyard

The neighbor’s backyard.  Beautiful flowers.

Granddad looking very English!  Church flow!

Who gardens in these type of shoes?

Granddad hoeing…lol!!!!

Rosemary.  Who knew it grew this tall?

Look who came out to help hoe.  There were TONS of them all over!

You think my Granddad has enough onions?

Pretty flowers next door.

This was THE longest worm ever!  EEEWWWWWW!!!!

Dinnertime with my cousin Daley.  What a handsome lad!

Some pics of the waterfront.

More importantly…pics of our food. Yum!

My BEAUTIFUL cousin Lyn at an AMERICAN football game.  She treated me so well!!!

The rest of the Davis family at dinner.

Cousin Sarah and I.  She’s a doll!

Me and Adam.

Daley, his wonderful Mum and Dad.  Hope I get to meet his brother next time.

Daley’s selfie…someone’s feeling themselves.

The rest of the crew…Niccola, her husband, Harry(Sarah’s husband, the tall one), Adam, Niccola’s sons.

After dinner, we went out to the courtyard to get some sun and chat some more.

The view.

The girls

Niccola having a jolly good time on the trampoline.

Niccola and Daley’s Mum.

Niccola after her jolly good time.  She fell and her leg got caught.

Fun was had by all!

Can’t wait to see them again!  They know how to have fun!

So today I decided to take a nice stroll.  My granddad lives on a very busy road.  Since I didn’t want to get lost, I decided to walk and see where it takes me.  As I started walking, I started to notice how beautiful the houses were.  Voila…

This is Norwich Road…

Here are a some of the houses I liked alot!

This is house was for sale.  I’d add some grass and of course flowers.

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C. This house is AMAZING!

D. Another one which was right next door!

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F.  Sorry it’s crooked.  I was on the bus when I took this pic.

G. Gorge!

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I. Cute little pink house.

Random!!  This dude was walking down the street as I was taking pictures.  Looked like the Dark Knight to me.  What you don’t see is his black eye shadow. Ow!

J.  Two houses in one pic!

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M.  I saved the best for last!  I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED this house.  That red door is E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!

Which was your favorite house?

P.S.  This is one of the hotels in Ipswich.  The Bentley Tower Hotel.

I love my dear old Granddad but a sista’s gotta get out this house! But where do I go?

I decided to go to “town.”  The last time I was here, back in 2008(shout out to Genean), I got some great buys at the ‘shops’ in town.  I was hoping I’d have the same luck.

So, that was the plan.  Go to town.  “Hmm…why not walk,” I thought. “Oh, what is it… about 15-20 minutes.  That shouldn’t be bad.”  WRONG!  It took me about 30-40 minutes.  To most, that might not seem that bad. To someone that has been sitting on her ‘bum’ all summer and hasn’t done much exercise, it was painful.

I made the most of it and decided to take pictures along the way.

For some reason this row of trees caught my eye.  Something about the way they are growing from the ground.  They’re sort of on a slant.

The tree up close.  I have no idea what that was growing on it.

Here is the ’round about’ that is so common in England.  It’s amazing to see the cars going around and through it.   I don’t understand when they know it’s their turn to go.  Notice, there is no traffic light.  

Aaahh, town…FINALLY!

Oh shoot, look what I ran into.  A beauty supply store!  It came just in time.  This weather has my hair looking rachet! This store was on point too.  They had hair oils that I haven’t been able to find in the US. 

As I walk deeper into town, I took pictures of the different ‘shops’ that I’d seen that surprised me.

Shout out to Tomeka…

Had to stop at this Jamaican Snack Shop to pick up a beef pattie.  

This isn’t a shop but it’s a beautiful church

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China man food…in Ipswich.  I shan’t be trying that. 

Here’s one of the roundabout signs you’ll see in England.  

Can’t go anywhere without a Fried Chicken spot.

These people were loud and out of control.

So…here I am at the end of the block.  And I realized I had to get to this brown building.  Ummm…how??  There was no crosswalk.  I asked a man that was walking by.  He told me to use…  This is a tunnel I had to use to get across the street.  I understand why it’s there but I know I wouldn’t want to walk down there when it’s dark.

Brown building…

Entrance to tunnel…

Of course there’s a nail salon…

Now that I’ve reached town…first stop, Marks and Spencer.  This place reminds me of Lord and Taylor except it has a supermarket.  It had the BEST apple turnovers which is my favorite pastry.

Aaahh, Primark.  I’d heard about this store through a Vlogger on Youtube.  This place kind of reminded me of Forever 21.  I got a CUTE green (y’all know I like my bright colors) dress, a sweater and some accessories.

Then I went to the most adorable store called Accessorize.  I bought some heart earrings with the matching necklace.

I did some thrift shopping.  I got a beautiful snake skinned bag and a beach back for 6 pounds total which is $10.

So there’s lots of Casino’s in the middle of the town too which I found to be strange.

Lunch break… Where do you think I stopped?

Yep I went all the way to Ipswich, England and decided to eat McD’s.  I got a Mediterranean chicken sandwich.  It was on point too.

Final stop, T.K. Maxx.  I was spending too much money.  They had the most beautiful leather bags! I bought some shoes, a sweater and another bag.

 

 

 

 

Random pics as I walk back to the bus.

 

 

Seems so empty, right?

 

 

 

 

 

So there you have it…my shopping trip to town.  Just to give an idea of what it was like walking around.  It was extremely quiet. No loud talking at all.  The most you’d hear was kids laughing and your footsteps.  I caught the bus back to my Granddad’s house.  I was so tired!