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Oct. 13th, 2005 10:45 pmA most enjoyable day, pootling round the nicer bits of Essex and Suffolk, involving churches, interesting houses, and the aim of any day of country pootling - to wit, a road with grass growing down the middle of it. Such fine towns as Saffron Walden, Clare and Long Melford were handsome even in the rain, and Kersey remains one of Britain's most picture-perfect hamlets.
Topped off with a very good three-course blowout at a pub near Royston. The pub is called the King William IV, in a village called Heydon, and is especially notable for its excellent vegetarian menu - any Cambridge veggies with their own transport are recommended to try it out. It's also a very strange pub, full to bursting with farm implements, burnished copper whatnots, and at least one free-floating table anchored not to the floor but the ceiling (by chains - not ideal for eating food off, we decided).
See more at http://www.kingwilliv.freeuk.com
And after this monster blowout (including a large bowl of fried, battered vegetables and noodles), what could have been more fun than having two minutes to run from platform 2 to 5 at Cambridge station (which is a fair distance, believe me) in two minutes, to avoid an hour-long change. I'm sure there's still a battered carrot vibrating somewhere...
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papaspoof for driving, and for being willing to be dragged into not one but two late Perpendicular churches (the very good saffron Walden, and the awesome Long Melford) without whimpering once...
Topped off with a very good three-course blowout at a pub near Royston. The pub is called the King William IV, in a village called Heydon, and is especially notable for its excellent vegetarian menu - any Cambridge veggies with their own transport are recommended to try it out. It's also a very strange pub, full to bursting with farm implements, burnished copper whatnots, and at least one free-floating table anchored not to the floor but the ceiling (by chains - not ideal for eating food off, we decided).
See more at http://www.kingwilliv.freeuk.com
And after this monster blowout (including a large bowl of fried, battered vegetables and noodles), what could have been more fun than having two minutes to run from platform 2 to 5 at Cambridge station (which is a fair distance, believe me) in two minutes, to avoid an hour-long change. I'm sure there's still a battered carrot vibrating somewhere...
Thanks to
papaspoof for driving, and for being willing to be dragged into not one but two late Perpendicular churches (the very good saffron Walden, and the awesome Long Melford) without whimpering once...
