The Brome Swan Cycling Club do Thaxted, Essex - 10th May 2008
The Brome Swan does its annual cycle-club weekend away, this year to the pretty town of Thaxted, near Saffron Walden in Essex. Both the weather and the scenery are superb: the route takes us around about 28 miles (or 29 with unintended diversions) around the Essex countryside and via several pubs, which provide much-needed beer refreshment (especially as it's getting pretty hot by the afternoon). Isobel even pitches in to do the first half, leaving us at Finchingfield and returning back to Thaxted, whilst the rest of us press on up ever-steeper hills.
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The view out of our hotel bedroom window, over-looking cute cottages and the churchyard |
Alan, Sue and Isobel eat breakfast |
Bill checks up for any text messages |
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Thaxted's old guildhall |
Sue and Isobel pause to look at something. Maybe it's the "cat-flaps and hoovers" on offer |
We consult a map and realise we've gone the wrong way |
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Jen and Simon at the first stop in Great Bardfield |
A garage full of junk |
In Great Bardfield, the whole village is full of street-side rummage sales |
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Alan models his legs |
Apple John heads off to unlock his bike |
A heap of bikes and flourescent jackets |
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Phil, Jen, Bill amd Isobel reach the top of a steep hill |
Isobel and Apple in the Fox at Finchingfield |
Silhouettes around the pool table |
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Red-brick bridge and pond, Finchingfield |
The Finchingfield duck pond |
Phil keeps up his tradition of newspaper-reading |
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A windmill on the edge of Finchingfield |
Bill zeds out on the bench |
Sue roams around as Al sits down for a beer: Bluebell Inn, Hempstead |
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Almshouses and Windmill, Thaxted |
Sue, Marc and The Boy Phil read the menu list for dinner |
John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted |
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Isobel feeds a horse some tasty long grass |
A friendly ginger cat tags along with us for a while |
Our residence for the weekend: The Swan hotel, Thaxted |
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