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
 
Jon "Ninja" Mortlock takes his comfort blankie to bed :-)
 
Sue makes tea
 
Marc substitutes a packet of biccies for his genitalia...
 
...and then offers them around...
 
and then shows the results of mastication
 
Next morning, it's tent city
 
 
 
 
Outside the Ramsholt Arms, on the River Deben
 
 
 
A brief stop in Alderton
 
At the ferry at Bawdsey. The sign says to "Wave bat for ferry"...
 
...which Bill dutifully does
 
 
 
Jen has a paddle in the river...
 
...whilst Sue writes her name in the sand
 
On the ferry 'cross the river. DH looks after the bikes
 
 
 
Paying the ferryman ('cos he got us to the other side)
 
 
 
At the Ferryboat Inn, Felixstowe Ferry
 
 
 
 
On the way to Walton, on the outskirts of Felixstowe, we spot a whole line of vintage tractors
 
 
Entertaining pub-sign humour
 
Inside the "Half Moon" at Walton

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