Eynsham, to the west of Oxford, would not be an obvious choice for a mention on Essex Days Out. We do plan to cover both days out in Essex, and from Essex (primarily, to enable us to cover Suffolk). Eynsham is 125miles away, and travelling there by car can take anything from 2hr15m on a [...]
It was a busy week, and Friday night was the only opportunity to get to this year’s Winter Ale Festival in Colchester. I was at Google HQ the following day, and I’ve been busy today writing that visit up on another blog.. A winter ale festival is nirvana for me, featuring virtually wall to wall [...]
We’ve been driving past The Dolphin on the A120 (just to the east of Braintree) for the best part of 25 years now. It got an extension on the side of the original pub some years ago, and is an attractive pub, but we never got round to visiting. The reason for choosing The Dolphin [...]
It looks like a thaw is on its way, so we popped out for a walk around Castle Park this Sunday lunchtime, and back via a couple of pubs. Colchester Castle was looking nice in the snow, and the hill at the back of the castle, originally intended to make it difficult for attackers to [...]
The first few days of 2010 have seen more snow in Colchester than we normally see all year. So not much Essex Days Outing this week! Pictured below is a panoramic photo of the almshouses opposite us – made by stitching three separate photos together, hence the curvature!
The third and final leg of a three pub beer festival afternoon trip : Back up the B1022, and before that long we were turning off to find Copford, and The Alma (their website. It’s a more basic pub than the Sun Inn, but it’s an unspoilt rural gem. They had two dozen beers on, [...]
The Sun Inn is a Shepherd Neame pub, a lovely ivy-clad old building just north of Kelvedon, handily placed close to both the Poplar and the Perrywood garden centres. We visited their first beer festival in 2011, and enjoyed it. And ditto the second festival, a Winter Ale festival at the end of November – [...]
First up on our three-leg beerfestcrawl this afternoon was The Wheatsheaf in Hatfield Peverel, a Greene King pub and ‘a traditional family restaurant’ just a few minutes drive away from The Museum of Power. Perversely, after two months of almost unbroken sunshine and warm weather, it was grey, cloudy and quite windy when we turned [...]
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