I’ve been straining up the hill past The Donkey & Buskins on my cycle for several years, and finally popped in there this lunchtime (in the car, not on the bike!). The pub is on the road out of Colchester towards Layer, and has a large car park to the side and a large garden [...]
After a morning cycling round the countryside doing the Tour of Tendring, a relaxing afternoon was the order of the day, and we picked well in heading off to Layer Marney Tower for their mini beer and music festival.
The Hare and Hounds is under new ownership since this article was written, and we’ve visited and the new menu is a huge improvement on the one we reported in this article. So to make sure there’s no confusion, we’ve removed the content in this article about the old menu - click here for the [...]
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).
The weather has been really cold recently, but finally today it warmed up enough for us to go out for a bike ride.First we went to Layer de la Haye. We cycled through Abbey Fields and then past Merville Barracks and up Layer Road. We went past the sad sight of the old Layer Road Football [...]
Autumn is a great time of the year to be out and about in the Essex countryside. The leaves on the trees and in the hedgerows are changing colour to beautiful reds and golds and the light is golden and seems to blow in the wind. Here is a lovely route to follow through some [...]
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