The Cycling Camping Trip. Shottisham, Suffolk - 13th-15th August 2004
The "cycling splinter group" do their annual camping trip, this year to St Margaret's Campsite in Shottisham near Woodbridge in Suffolk (possibly the world's most lacksadaisically-run site, notwithstanding the owner eventually letting us off for pitching in the wrong field). This year was a gentler 30-odd-mile ride from Shottisham through Bawdsey, across the ferry to Felixstowe Ferry, through Walton, up to Woodbridge and back. Of course, various pubs were involved on the way...
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Marc and Sue in the "base pub" - the Sorrel Horse in Shottisham |
Apple and Pippa |
DH chats to the landlord, Ken, about Bawdsey radar and the "Chain Home" system |
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Jon "Ninja" Mortlock takes his comfort blankie to bed :-) |
Sue makes tea |
Marc substitutes a packet of biccies for his genitalia... |
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...and then offers them around... |
and then shows the results of mastication |
Next morning, it's tent city |
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Outside the Ramsholt Arms, on the River Deben |
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A brief stop in Alderton |
At the ferry at Bawdsey. The sign says to "Wave bat for ferry"... |
...which Bill dutifully does |
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Jen has a paddle in the river... |
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...whilst Sue writes her name in the sand |
On the ferry 'cross the river. DH looks after the bikes |
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Paying the ferryman ('cos he got us to the other side) |
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At the Ferryboat Inn, Felixstowe Ferry |
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On the way to Walton, on the outskirts of Felixstowe, we spot a whole line of vintage tractors |
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Entertaining pub-sign humour |
Inside the "Half Moon" at Walton |
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