The Live and Let Live, Colchester
Posted on 14 January 2012
A pub that we haven't been to before, and a Sausage and Beer Festival was the reason for visiting. Great beer and great sausages!
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Posted on 14 January 2012
A pub that we haven't been to before, and a Sausage and Beer Festival was the reason for visiting. Great beer and great sausages!
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Posted on 02 January 2012
New Year's Day 2012 was pretty grim, weather-wise, so we postponed our regular new year's walk until today. Scouting around for ideas, we came across the excellent Mount Bures website, which includes a section with half a dozen circular walks around the village.
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Posted on 28 December 2011
he Fleece Hotel is a 16th-Century coaching inn nestled snugly in the centre of Boxford, a few miles south of Sudbury and several miles north of Colchester.
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The February half-term is approaching! Our February Events listing highlights a range of activities, ranging from ‘Everything But The Squeak Week!’ at the excellent Audley End House and Gardens, through ‘Lambing Nightwatch’ at Marsh Farm Country Park, ‘Pirates and Mermaids’ at Thorndon Country Park, to museum events, calligraphy, bird boxes, and Toby Jugs.
We fancied a relatively short, and not-too-muddy Boxing Day walk yesterday, and plumped for one part of the Flitch Way, a 15-mile linear park between Braintree and Bishops Stortford.
After getting there late on the second day last year, this year we arrived at the very beginning of the two-day fayre.
The Sun Inn held its second beer festival this year, and it was up to the standard of the first one!