Why you should read? Is Basildon Essex a nice place to live? Planning on a Premier Inn stay? Is it worth staying, and if so, for how long? Tea provisions Tea provisions were sufficient for the majority of guests, however, I felt because I’m addicted to tea, I was a little more picky than most. […]
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#325 Brightlingsea Summer adventure
Having taken the train from Colchester to Alresford, I then assisted a lady with her pram, to alight. That would be my final good deed of the day, but it was enough to start my day with a sense of being “the good Samaritan”, rather than the “rugged intrepid explorer”. Explorer, was a slight exaggeration […]

#324 Mersea island adventure – “Mersea island is a pleasant location for a meal out, or brief visit”.
Typically up to one hour either side of high tide, you can cross over the Strood. within this, it gets covered by the Colne and Blackwater estuaries. I rode my bike to the Strood, having planned to reach it at low tide. When passing onto the island, there was one split in the road, directing […]