tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post2228011197260910923..comments2024-03-29T12:30:31.492+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Saturday Walk Wakes Colne to Bures - along the Colne ValleyAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-15587695306948254652021-06-20T11:59:28.794+01:002021-06-20T11:59:28.794+01:00Last Wednesday it was uncomfortably hot for walkin...Last Wednesday it was uncomfortably hot for walking - for some of us. Today it was more than 10 degrees C cooler, which was welcomed, although the day was w=overcast-with-threatening-skies, with drizzly rain in the afternoon. The sun having worked overtime on Wednesday did not make an appearance all day.<br />Just n=2 of us showed up for this outing on the Essex-Suffolk border. The countryside was very green - and damp - having received a months rain over the the previous twenty four hours. Some paths were muddy and others were very overgrown, making progress at times hard work. But it did not matter as the walk was familiar to us and much liked by both of us. Just beyond the Earls Colne golf course my companion opted to recce a new route to Sudbury, bypassing Bures, so I continued on my own to Colne Engaine, where I enjoyed an excellent lunch at the Five Bells - still one of the best pubs on a SWC walk. Well fed and watered I continued on, trying to book check now in drizzly rain, and latterly encountering some very overgrown paths. I passed up on tea on reaching Bures and I was in good time for the 17-33 hrs service to Marks Tey and the connection for the London train. I was home in good time for the footie, having enjoyed a good day's walking in lovely, remote countryside. <br /><br /> <br /> Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896105028157686446noreply@blogger.com