title The Cycling Camping Trip. Shottisham, Suffolk - 13th-15th August 2004
intro The "cycling splinter group" do their annual camping trip, this year to St Margaret's Campsite in Shottisham near Woodbridge in Suffolk (possibly the world's most lacksadaisically-run site, notwithstanding the owner eventually letting us off for pitching in the wrong field). This year was a gentler 30-odd-mile ride from Shottisham through Bawdsey, across the ferry to Felixstowe Ferry, through Walton, up to Woodbridge and back. Of course, various pubs were involved on the way...
dcp_7444 Marc and Sue in the "base pub" - the Sorrel Horse in Shottisham
dcp_7445 Apple and Pippa
dcp_7446 DH chats to the landlord, Ken, about Bawdsey radar and the "Chain Home" system
dcp_7447 Jon "Ninja" Mortlock takes his comfort blankie to bed :-)
dcp_7451 Sue makes tea
dcp_7456 Marc substitutes a packet of biccies for his genitalia...
dcp_7457 ...and then offers them around...
dcp_7460 and then shows the results of mastication
dcp_7463 Next morning, it's tent city
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dcp_7468 Outside the Ramsholt Arms, on the River Deben
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dcp_7472 A brief stop in Alderton
dcp_7473 At the ferry at Bawdsey. The sign says to "Wave bat for ferry"...
dcp_7475 ...which Bill dutifully does
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dcp_7479 Jen has a paddle in the river...
dcp_7480 ...whilst Sue writes her name in the sand
dcp_7482 On the ferry 'cross the river. DH looks after the bikes
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dcp_7487 Paying the ferryman ('cos he got us to the other side)
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dcp_7491 At the Ferryboat Inn, Felixstowe Ferry
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dcp_7499 On the way to Walton, on the outskirts of Felixstowe, we spot a whole line of vintage tractors
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dcp_7504 Entertaining pub-sign humour
dcp_7506 Inside the "Half Moon" at Walton
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dcp_7512 Nosher plays the piano for a bit
dcp_7514 Next pub along, and Bill and Sue play on the slide
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dcp_7520 Perhaps the prettiest pub in Suffolk, which unfortunately we didn't stop in as it didn't open all day
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dcp_7523 A field of pumpkins
dcp_7525 Pub 4, The Red Lion, on the edge of Martlesham
dcp_7530 Pub 5, The Wilford Bridge, near Sutton Hoo on the edge of Woodbridge. More beer...
dcp_7531 Sue scopes out a tiny caterpillar through Nosher's printers' magnifier (well, doesn't everyone carry one?)
dcp_7535 Apple and Pip on the bridge over the river Deben
dcp_7538 There's always something that fascinates me about Turf Fields: 20 acres of lawn
dcp_7540 Pub 6, and the end of the line, back at the Sorrel Horse in Shottisham
dcp_7543 Caz joins the gang for food and vodka
dcp_7544 DH inspects "The List"
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dcp_7549 Marc shows off a crab
dcp_7552 Bill guffs and nearly gasses out the entire pub
dcp_7557 Claire, the cute barmaid, and Ken the landlord
dcp_7558 Claire pokes Marc awake with a large stick
dcp_7560 Claire applies a plaster to Bill's finger after he gets it shredded by Bageira the pub cat
dcp_7561 Next morning
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