Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh - Ellee Seymour, Author

I have just spent the most wonderful few days in Aldeburgh with a dear friend and kind, generous hosts. It’s an annual retreat and point of reunion for Heather and myself, a former nurse from Cambridge who now lives in London, and plans to uproot to Somerset. We plan to continue our annual July walking weekend in that glorious Suffolk town wherever she moves to.

Here is a route of our walk around Benjamin Britten’s Aldeburgh, our leading 20th century composer, including a stop at his pink limestone home in Crabbe Street, having been directed there by an energetic 85-year-old who had just taken her daily dip in the grey sea, with Sizewell B’s white spherical landmark clearly visible on the horizon. We also saw the grey slate tombstones marking his burial place alongside his partner, the operatic tenor Peter Pears.

Many thanks to Heather for her patience while I took so many photos en route, some of which include her during our trail.