Posts Tagged ‘Essex’
October 11th, 2009
COLCHESTER — My first destination today was Halstead. I got off to a tricky start as I didn’t have time to consult my road atlas and it was quite some distance before I could stop and confirm I wasn’t going in the right direction. I finally found my way back to the right road (passed the same cyclist three times) and reached Halstead.
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October 10th, 2009
COLCHESTER — Today I explored Colchester on foot. The first stop was the Information Office to get a map of the city. From there it was across the road and into Castle Park to visit the Castle Museum. The museum is housed in a Norman stone keep built on the foundations of a Roman temple.
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October 9th, 2009
COLCHESTER — It wasn’t that I had a long way to go but that the tangle of roads in the atlas looked very complicated, so I decided to try and get to Colchester as directly and quickly as possible. Except for the bit where I took a brief detour to the Isle of Sheppey. I passed through Queenborough and on to Sheerness. A rather featureless and desolate-looking piece of England. The most interesting part of the detour was the giant hump of a bridge that you had to cross to and from the Isle. You were warned about hazardous cross-winds when crossing.
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