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
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Apple and Pippa
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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 :-)
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Sue makes tea
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Marc substitutes a packet of biccies for his genitalia...
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...and then offers them around...
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and then shows the results of mastication
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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
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At the ferry at Bawdsey. The sign says to "Wave bat for ferry"...
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...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
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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
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Inside the "Half Moon" at Walton
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