The best fish and chip shop in the world?
See this shed? It's on the harbour at Southwold and we think it's the best fish and chip shop in the world. It's called Mrs T's and for five of your pounds you get sublime cod and chips and 10 minutes complete silence while everyone scoffs them all up.
We were of course in Southwold for the World Crabbing Championships. Of course we were. It was an utter disaster as far as catching the little nippy creatures goes, but then with over 1,000 entrants dangling various sizes and strains of raw meat into the estuary all at once it's little wonder anyone caught a thing.
We cleared out after a fruitless time and promptly caught a bucketful of crabs just over the river in under 10 minutes. We were using chicken wings, figuring crabs eat fish all the time and might like a taste of the exotic. The winner landed a 5 1/2 ounce beast using fish bait. Sigh.
To give you an idea of how posh the event in Walberswick is, third place when to a nine-year-old called Mimi Haycraft Nee, who landed a 4 1/2 ounce crustation with some bacon.
Don't think we'll be back next year. We will be crabbing some more though.
