Happier days
Nov. 6th, 2024 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWell, that was not the news I hoped to wake up to this morning. I have nothing constructive to say about it, so let's talk about something more cheerful.
Planning our holiday in Essex, looking at maps, I realised one reason there is so much of the county I don't know: all those rivers, in fact, all those estuaries.durham_rambler suggested we go to Mersea Island. On the map it's unambiguously an island, in the Blackwater estuary: on the road it's not so clear. We drove through saltmarshes threaded with streams, and across a low wooden bridge, past the vineyard (not open on Mondays) and through to the coast road. In season this would be a lively place to come and eat oysters: neither of us is fond of oysters, but we found a pub, the Victory, where we ate dressed crab very happily. After lunch we strolled along the road admiring the houseboats:
I found these fascinating, butdurham_rambler was hoping for a more traditional seaside experience, So we relocated to the seaward end of the island, and its iconic pastel beach huts:
Two very different seasides for the price of obne, what's not to like?
Planning our holiday in Essex, looking at maps, I realised one reason there is so much of the county I don't know: all those rivers, in fact, all those estuaries.
durham_rambler suggested we go to Mersea Island. On the map it's unambiguously an island, in the Blackwater estuary: on the road it's not so clear. We drove through saltmarshes threaded with streams, and across a low wooden bridge, past the vineyard (not open on Mondays) and through to the coast road. In season this would be a lively place to come and eat oysters: neither of us is fond of oysters, but we found a pub, the Victory, where we ate dressed crab very happily. After lunch we strolled along the road admiring the houseboats:I found these fascinating, but
durham_rambler was hoping for a more traditional seaside experience, So we relocated to the seaward end of the island, and its iconic pastel beach huts:Two very different seasides for the price of obne, what's not to like?
