Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Rides and Touring => Topic started by: cycleman on 27 August, 2023, 06:36:40 pm
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Me and apollo will be camping at the a above campsite from the 1st September for 6 nights arriving at approx 2.00pm Friday afternoon. If anyone is up for some gentle pottering in the area we will be pleased to meet you 😀
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Google failed me there. I found a Rushbanks campsite...
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Near Nayland, https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=13499
Now corrected ::-)
Just hoping for reasonable weather now. :)
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I camped there with Woolly & Peli many moons ago. There was river swimming on offer at the time.
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They offer canoeing and 🔥. There looks to be some nice lanes around as well :)
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They offer canoeing and 🔥. There looks to be some nice lanes around as well :)
It's prime WARTY country.
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Looks interesting and one for future excitement.
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They offer canoeing and 🔥. There looks to be some nice lanes around as well :)
It's prime WARTY country.
LIKE!
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Cracking spot - another Suffolk secret - over night stop for Sudbury to Sea, plenty of lanes and hills to ride through either side of the Stour.
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Would like, but local commitments prevent.
Enjoy it and don't set anything on fire that isn't meant to be burnt.
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If you haven't visited before, St Stephen's Chapel in Bures is worth a visit - mainly so that you can admire the dragon!
(Dragon also visible from Cuckoo Hill, but looks better from the chapel)
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Thanks for that, that's one destination sorted :)
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Would like, but local commitments prevent.
Enjoy it and don't set anything on fire that isn't meant to be burnt.
Oh dear. You've only gone and given him ideas ... 🤔 😂
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The Swan was our preferred pub in Bures, but sadly it's closed now. Featured in several WARTIES, most notably the very first one when it was bloody freezing all day. They knocked up 19 lunches to be eaten around a roaring fire in short order.
The two others are the Eight Bells and the Three Horseshoes. I don't recall going to either and neither seems to have a website.
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I can't see a hiker/ biker price option so assume it's £30/ night? Seems a bit on the expensive side but saying that I cycled past at the weekend and it was pretty busy.
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Arrived Friday evening and did a short ride along the a134 to find supper at a pub which turned out to have no food as the kitchen was closed. Crisps and a half pint of real ale for supper.
Yesterday we were up early and rode to the shop in west Bergholt to purchase supplies and breakfast . We then continued into Colchester where we visited the museum at the tourist information and viewed the castle from the outside. Next we rode along the cycleway alongside the river Colne to Wivenhoe where we stopped for lunch at a Syrian cafe (very tasty) and I fixed a rear wheel puncture. We rode down to the waterfront before retracing our route back to the campsite. A very pleasant first day's cycling :)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/V6tF8Rw7M3FQzE5c7
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I've done Rushbanks and whilst great for access to water with canoe found it far too big, loud and soulless for my camping preference
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If you had gone to the Black Buoy pub for lunch in Wivenhoe, you would have been immediately next door to my son's previous residence.
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We rode past the black boy pH on the way down to the waterfront 😊.
Today's Potter was down to Manningtree and mistey.a late start by my standards aloud apollo the visit he's various fellow campers ment a lunch stop at Denham then onwards to Manningtree where supplies were purchased for supper and tomorrow's breakfast. Apollo had some coke and grapes whilst watching sailing boats on the estuary at mistey. Riding back though Denham the front left tyre went down. I pumped it up and it got me back to the campsite just. Discovered a hawthorn in it hedge cutting season appears to have started :'(
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uUhFMDccwTMyb6rU7
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AIL4fc9WVCJOWzlijo1oaCuRpiMyfVB5htpkGNx6GN6KlNNbIqMPCnwj3Z_j2IuM6ush8U58Kwwd7dinkKDIgYkgDy9xvKFPRx_FDwOcl6rGmnAYUSU3l7xOXqeXLop9Kzx-WUPGhzUM1VCRH_b02YP0x98s=w453-h604-s-no?authuser=0)
Apollo has a new shirt but Chris has the same old toes! :thumbsup:
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Looks suspiciously like Apollo's got a new bike, too...
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Same toes I'm pleased to say :). Apollo is using a old mountain bike that was donated by a neighbour. His Yacf team bike needs servicing but parlent house has not got it yet. Requested last autumn ::-).
A bit misty this morning but the sun is out and it should soon burn off :)
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After repairing a hawthorn puncture last night I woke up to a flat tire this morning and found two more punctures which used my last two patches. Using Google maps I found a place about 3 miles away that ŕepaired old bike's and sent them to Africa. They gave me some puncture repair kits. We then rode to Bures where we stopped for lunch. The little shop sold me 2 very home made scotch eggs. After eating we rode along the lane on the west side of the stour to sudbury where we had a look at the museum at the tourist information centre before stocking up on supplies at aldi for supper and tomorrow's breakfast. We followed the b road back to Bures turning left there to follow the lane back towards Nayland and the campsite. We have now eaten are enjoying the last of the evening sunshine 🌞
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SFndv8ubn3NeT3yf7
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The weather is being kind. Good photos Chris as ever.
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Thanks canardly, today was a repeat of Saturdays ride to Wivenhoe without punctures :). We Had another look around Colchester and had lunch there before heading down the cycleway to Wivenhoe where we watched sailing boats sailing up the channel by wind alone. On the way back up the cycleway apollo found a shadey spot to watch for trains running along the Colchester to harwich line for around 2 hours :o. Definitely a train watcher though rather than a train spotter as he didn't note down the numbers :). Then we rode back to the campsite via west Bergholt and Hockley heath :)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uWMQQrV1BsouNumn9
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Wivenhoe-without-Punctures. Pretty little place...
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Thanks canardly, today was a repeat of Saturdays ride to Wivenhoe without punctures :). We Had another look around Colchester and had lunch there before heading down the cycleway to Wivenhoe where we watched sailing boats sailing up the channel by wind alone. On the way back up the cycleway apollo found a shadey spot to watch for trains running along the Colchester to harwich line for around 2 hours :o. Definitely a train watcher though rather than a train spotter as he didn't note down the numbers :). Then we rode back to the campsite via west Bergholt and Hockley heath :)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uWMQQrV1BsouNumn9
May I be a pedant and point out that if you were at Wivenhoe, along the cycle path between there and Colchester, those trains are heading for Walton or Clacton. The Harwich trains leave Manningtree rather than Colchester.
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Thanks Kim,I should have checked the map before posting ::-)
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The last day for riding today :'(. We set out through Bures and followed the lane's via lamarsh twinstead and,Wickham St Paul to Castle Hedingham. We Had lunch there in a cafe then went to look at the castle but it was closed. So we rode back to sudbury. I made the mistake of following google cycle routing which sent us down a bridleway which turned into a footpath with stiles and kissing gates. We got through after about a hours effort. We stopped at aldi for supplies then after a couple of miles along the b road to Bures we turned up into the hills and followed lanes back to the campsite. The route even had a little ford :)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/59BFpr3p8rHfXs749
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Yesterday's ride was out to Castle Hedingham via Bures lamarsh twinstead and Wickham St Paul. We found a cafe for lunch then went to look at the castle which was closed. So we headed back to sudbury and I made the mistake of following google cycle routing which sent us down a bridleway which turned into a footpath with stiles and kissing gates. We eventually got to sudbury and bought some supplies from aldi for supper and tomorrow's breakfast. We then rode to little Cornard and used a bridleway which took us to a series of lane's which after passing a couple of radio masts also crossed a ford's. We got back to the tent just after sunset 🌇..
Today we packed up and are now back after a fun few days :)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Kk1dF9dez9onV5r7
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You had some of the best weather of the summer which makes for a very nice change. The last time we toured in Norfolk at this time of year we were somewhat like drowned rats. I now hold a personal record for nursing a mug of tea for the longest time in Norwich cathedral. You will also recall that Mildenhall used to save its annual rain fall for the rally week end at the end of August.
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To be fair, Bob, we only had the one day of rain and we managed it very effectively I thought. I do find it alarming that that was two years ago.
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My memories of Mildenhall are very different to Bobs. For the 18 times I went to the rally I can only recall 2 very wet days, on the whole the weekend attracted very dry weather.
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Your experience is much wider than mine Alan. However, In the more recent past I remember one year standing with several of this place under the bike sheds roof watching a 2ft high vertical water fountain from the school playground drains and on the last occasion I cycled there, the exit roads (on my route home) were blocked due to raw sewage flowing down the street as a result of torrential rain. The rain continued until I arrived at home some hours later and by which time I was wetter than a wet thing. I do however miss the Mildenhall Rally as the atmosphere/event/company was wonderful.
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My recollection of Mildenhall was usually decent weather, with a compulsory downpour at some point over the weekend, that was only a problem if you were out of diving-for-cover range when it happened, or if you'd parked your motor vehicle in the muddy field (on that occasion I'd had the foresight to bring a van, which was able to escape the mudbath under its own power through a combination of third gear, luck and ground clearance). I distinctly recall barakta discovering what heavy rain sounds like on a small tent one year.
Since the demise of the Mildennhall Rally, the BHPC have continued the end-of-August tradition by organising an event at Darley Moor, a location which is never in short supply of Weather. (This year it was so wet on the Saturday night that the venue man unlocked the training centre free of charge so the campers would have somewhere dry to sit.)
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There was one Mildenhall rally in which the rain in Saarfend greatly exceeded any in Mildenhall. Due to computer glitches etc, I'm sorry to say that my weather records of the time are lost, but I suspect that if I were to find my posts on here for August 2013, I would have reported that over 60mm rain fell onto my weather station in about 2 hours. That was the storm in which the manhole cover in the main road outside our hose was struck by lightning. Jan and I had come on the tandem and had cycled each way between Marks Tey and Mildenhall.
Edit: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30096.msg1549757#msg1549757 refers.