Rushbrooke camping site Suffolk

[cycleman]

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 😀

[Polar Bear]

Google failed me there. I found a Rushbanks campsite...

[cycleman]

Near Nayland, https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=13499
Now corrected 
Just hoping for reasonable weather now. 

[Wowbagger]

I camped there with Woolly & Peli many moons ago. There was river swimming on offer at the time.

[cycleman]

They offer canoeing and 🔥. There looks to be some nice lanes around as well 

[Wowbagger]

They offer canoeing and 🔥. There looks to be some nice lanes around as well 

It's prime WARTY country.

[Polar Bear]

Looks interesting and one for future excitement.

[Wobbly John]

They offer canoeing and 🔥. There looks to be some nice lanes around as well 

It's prime WARTY country.

LIKE!

[Suffolk Born]

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.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Would like, but local commitments prevent.

Enjoy it and don't set anything on fire that isn't meant to be burnt.

[sparklyfish]

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)

[cycleman]

Thanks for that, that's one destination sorted 

[Polar Bear]

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 ...  🤔  😂

[Wowbagger]

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.

[gibbo]

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.

[cycleman]

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

[The Family Cyclist]

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

[Wowbagger]

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.

[cycleman]

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

[Cudzoziemiec]

Apollo has a new shirt but Chris has the same old toes! 

[Kim]

Looks suspiciously like Apollo's got a new bike, too...

[cycleman]

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 

[cycleman]

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

[Canardly]

The weather is being kind. Good photos Chris as ever.

[cycleman]

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  . 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