After a morning cycle rain around Tiptree in the dry (dry being a rare event in the August of 2010 in Essex), late afternoon suddenly brightened up, and offered blue skies, fluffy white clouds and a bit of sun. On the spur of the moment I swiftly put into operation a Cunning Plan that I [...]
Sudbury is a lovely town to visit for its small shops, old buildings, hidden lanes, the Kingfisher Leisure Centre, and the River Stour. It’s only just over the border with Essex, and one of the best times of the year to visit is high summer,when the drive from Colchester is glorious. Today the fields were golden and combine harvesters were [...]
Most of my cycling routes are circular ones to the south, west and north of Colchester. I tend not to look to the east, as getting out of town in that direction isn’t particularly easy, and you’ve got the busy A133 and B1027 heading out to the coast in that direction, and they aren’t particularly [...]
LEPRA are running a charity bike ride on 12th September in Colchester. On mainly off-road routes and cycle paths, with both 6 and 12-mile options, you can find out more about the event, which starts at Philip Morant School here Essex Days Out may well be represented on the day, and we may even do [...]
The BBC News website had an article on Saturday – ‘Rise of the Mamils (Middle Aged Men in Lycra)’ (link) which looked at men who take up cycling between the ages of 33 and 45. Sadly, I realised I was a couple of years older than that when I took up cycling – but I [...]
We visited Audley End early last summer, before we started Essex Days Out, and made a return visit today. It’s over to the west of Essex, and we drove along the A120 and then headed up the B1084 through the delightful village of Thaxted.
The autumn season brochure for the Crampthorn Theatre and the Civic Theatre in Chelmsford is now available. I thought I was over it, but the brochure did bring back the humiliation in about 1982 or 1983 when the pair of us were queuing up outside the Crampthorn Theatre, thinking we were in the queue to [...]
I’ve posted a couple of my regular cycle routes already, one to the N and NE, covering Dedham and Manningtree (click here), and one to the S, covering Tiptree, Tolleshunt, Gt. Wigborough, and Peldon (click here).
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