CycleTourer
Veteran
- Location
- Bury St. Edmunds
Helen
Is it Wivenhoe by any chance?
Jon
Is it Wivenhoe by any chance?
Jon
Where is this?
- Thread starter Auntie Helen
- Start date
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OP
OP
Auntie Helen
Ich bin Powerfrau!
- Location
- 47906 Kempen, Germany
Yes! It is Wivenhoe and you win the prize (the prize is feeling self-satisfied).
The buoys are on Railway Bridge, Anglesey Road. The NCN51 is all on roads and as you travel westwards you go up a steep hill and then suddenly arrive at this unmade section of road including the buoys. The route then wends through the quaint part of Wivenhoe, then you join the Wivenhoe Trail to Colchester.
We usually visit Wivenhoe by boat so it's fun to do it by bike as well.
The buoys are on Railway Bridge, Anglesey Road. The NCN51 is all on roads and as you travel westwards you go up a steep hill and then suddenly arrive at this unmade section of road including the buoys. The route then wends through the quaint part of Wivenhoe, then you join the Wivenhoe Trail to Colchester.
We usually visit Wivenhoe by boat so it's fun to do it by bike as well.
CycleTourer
Veteran
- Location
- Bury St. Edmunds
Auntie Helen said:
Thought I was right. A little bit of local knowledge, we live a bit further along the NCN51 near Bury St. Edmunds. You have a nice couple of recumbents there, have you toured with yours. Always wondered what they are like, I had heard that they aren't easy on the hills, is that right?
OP
OP
Auntie Helen
Ich bin Powerfrau!
- Location
- 47906 Kempen, Germany
We haven't toured yet but were just speaking about it today. We have a plan to trot up to the Suffolk/Norfolk borders in 2 days having one night in Woodbridge - we can stay with relatives near Beccles/Bungay. I want to get the ferry to Holland and tour around there, y'see, but HWMBO wisely suggests we try it in England too.CycleTourer said:
Recumbents are great - it's a wonderfully comfortable bike and I don't seem to suffer from the aches and pains that other cyclists do. They are hard work up hills, I just have to choose a low gear and keep pedalling and I'm getting better all the time.
Bury would be a fairly nice day cycle from the Colchester area - p'raps we'll give it a go sometime soon!
Bigtallfatbloke
New Member
Ok then...where is this?
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Montpellier - looking North 
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
Don't know where it is but it's one heck of a garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OP
OP
Auntie Helen
Ich bin Powerfrau!
- Location
- 47906 Kempen, Germany
There is a lovely field of sunflowers like that in Groombridge in Kent but no jet aeroplanes in the background of that field unless they're on final approach to Gatwick!
Bigtallfatbloke
New Member
It is actually a shot of Lyon Airport I took as I by passed the city to the east this summer.
OP
OP
Auntie Helen
Ich bin Powerfrau!
- Location
- 47906 Kempen, Germany
...methinks bigtallfatbloke's link has gone walkies
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
rich p said:Okay then. Where's this?
10 points for town, 5 points for country.
Europe somewhere! Is that worth one point?
France?
