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Tomorrow I have a day off from tour where I will be stuck in a hotel in Sarfend.  What is there to do in this pit people of TEF.  It doesn't have to include masturbation.  Thats a given.  Should I indulge in eating cockles and jellied eels, steal a car and go boy racing down the seafront, like the locals or is there something better to do?

Go round to Sturrocks and have a haggis lunch.

The Norfolk Broads are just 2½ hours away by car from there.  You could go and explore.  Or if that doesn't appeal, there's Cambridge (1½ hours away) and London (1 hour) both within easy reach.

Have some jellied eels, then throw them up off the end of the pier. Southend got a game on?

Bradwell-on-Sea power station is worth a visit.

If you fancy going to the seaside, but don't like the more tacky resorts, not far up the coast is a resort which is like travelling back in time - Frinton on Sea. It's a truly lovely spot, especially with weather like this. I'm not sure whether it is still the case. but several years ago it didn't even have a fish and chip shop.

Actually, having just looked on google maps, it's further than I remembered, it's close to Clacton not Southend.  :-[

Still worth a visit though.

I work in Frinton-on-Sea :)

Burnham on crouch is nice

there is a young black girl called anita who could pass your time, want her number ? :D

It is.

Does it have a fish and chip shop?  :)

Clancy on Crouch sounds a better place to be...for Peter that is.

Leigh on Sea has some good pubs/ restaurants around the fisherman's huts and stalls. You can walk along the estuary to get there and get the train back or vice versa. Saw The Charlatans at Chinnery's in Southend a couple of years ago and it's a cracking venue if there's anything on if you want a busman's holiday type thing!

I used to live by the marina there

Canvey Island mate-go see where the feelgoods use to hang out

http://www.southwold.info/about-southwold.html

If you ever get a chance pay this place a visit.

England at its olde styley best............STUNNING.

Cant say I've actually seen one to be honest !  Has a blodoy expensive cafe called Cafe 19.  One coffee, one orange juice, a full english breakfast and poached egg on toast was 19 quid !!

Go to the Waters edge. Look across and we will wave from Medway to you. That will pass at least 4.3 seconds. Get down to Adventure land and win yourself a gold fish. 

Go and get balls deep in some Essex clunge! its recommended :)

Couldn't agree more Leefer, used to live about 10 miles from there, a brisk walk along the beach with the kids and dogs on a Sunday afernoon in winter/spring used to set us up lovely for our roast dinner!!  And you can still park overloooking the sea on the road for nothing, if you get there early enough!!

So I did fuck all.  Couldn't check into the hotel until 1, adventureland doesn't open until next week, the pier looked like a dull pier and they charge you a quid to walk up and down it.

I walked the high street, had a greggs for lunch followed by an ice cream, bought a couple of dvds, watched them went back into town ate dinner at ask and then watched some telly.

That post really is as dull as my day was.  Rock N Roll indeed.


 

Someone has to ask, so it might as well be me.

Did you pay VAT on your pasty?

85p for a sausage roll and 60p for a bit of bread pudding.  That looks like great value pre VAT prices to me.  I make it £1.02 for a sausage roll once the pasty tax comes in fully.  Disgraceful.

It's 17p... Get over it.

 :D