Candy coloured beach huts, coastal homes of red brick, timber and thatch, smart bakeries and shrieking gulls — you’ll find all of these clustered at end-of-the-road settlements along Suffolk’s coast. It’s a scenic stretch, where several long estuaries slink to the sea through marsh and reeds — havens for birds, otters and seals. But there’s plenty to sustain its human visitors, too, with the area’s sandy soils optimum for breeding pigs, and local meat and charcuterie highly prized. The shores are rich in seaweed, with sea purslane and rock samphire, both brine-loving herbs, used to make Fishers Gin, while, further out, under big skies, fishing boats haul in the bounty from the North Sea, whose cold waters are rich in native lobster, sea bass and skate.