East coast (Suffolk) for a week. What are your top tips on must dos and must avoids?

[PsammeadPaintedTheLion]

We're a family of four, two children aged 4 and almost 2.

There's a pebbly beach near to where we are staying. Any nice sandy beaches? Should we avoid Yarmouth or is it nice?

Are there nice zoos/farms etc? I've heard about a dinosaur park near Norwich - any good for children that age? What's good in Norwich?

Would love to get personal reccommendations.

I did it! I actually went in the sea! Properly, up to my neck, I evan swam! At Gunhill, our fave beach here.

This may not be unusual for some of you, but my Dad's Maltese, I learnt to swim in the Med and was brought up thinking only insane British types went in the sea off these shores.

It was bracing, to say the least, but I could stand that but the stones were murder on my feet!

Oh, the thread has been moved, that's not good, I like to keep a different name for local.

Mrs Blondin, I sympathise! I was on the beach at Thorpeness a couple of weeks ago. The sea temperature was bearable, but the pebbles were murder on my feet. I recommend footwear you can wear till over the breakers, then chuck back to the shore.