During the Second World War an Italian fighter aircraft
landed on the shingle of Orford Ness.
Orford Ness is a spit of land on the coast attached to the rest
of Suffolk at Aldeburgh. Doubtless the
lighthouse was the pilot’s landing mark!
Immediately arrested, looking disconsolately he asked his
captors ‘tell me the name of desert
please’.
Even when the sun does shine this broad desolate landscape
appears to reach into infinity, punctuated by the lighthouse that will itself
soon fall into the sea.
Hares patrol this desert; above seagulls perform a fly past.
Its ‘sands’ are an admixture of rusting armaments, scientific paraphernalia.
Every so often signs appear warning not to stray off the foot paths for risk of
unexploded ordinance.
FOOTNOTE We were exploring around Orford Ness and Aldeburgh,
with special friends Jane and Trevor, staying in a wonderful Martello Tower
which they had rented to celebrate T’s birthday.
Trevor appears several times in this blog in the ‘Travel’s
with my Architect’ posts.
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