August 2014
A week on the Suffolk coast is just what the doctor ordered. Very gentle undulations, quiet lanes and hardly a pot hole in sight! All good for getting into a good rhythm and speeding along quite nicely.
That said, some of the smaller lanes here have had lots of sandy soil deposited on them and that slows you down a bit.
This first ride was a journey north from the beautiful fishing town of Aldeburgh to Dunwich, whose beach is the final destination of the iconic overnight Dunwich Dynamo ride from London that takes place every July.
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| Aldeburgh beach - Sunday morning |
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| Moot Hall - Aldeburgh |
On the way I stopped off at Leiston Abbey, where there is a summer music camp and by the sound of it, the inmates were already up and practising at 9 on a Sunday morning!
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| Leiston Abbey |
Quieter roads took me across the Minnsmere Nature Reserve a mix of forest and heath land where the purple heather was in abundance.
Dunwich was, during Anglo-Saxon times a major port and capital of East Anglia but erosion by the sea has reduced it to a tiny village with a church, a pub, a few houses and a cafe on the beach. The cafe is a good size for it's location and obviously gets a disproportionate surge in business one morning a year as hundreds of cyclists descend upon it. More details of the Dynamo are on this link.
http://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/introducing-dunwich-dynamo/
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| Dunwich beach |
The Route
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/572436120
