Mini tours from London

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honk
A quick overnight run out to the Dengie Peninsula on Friday, setting off from New Cross around 5pm, arriving in Bradwell on Sea for about 930. 100km out, 100km back in the morning.

Quick pint of cider in the pub about 2km from the peninsula, and then onto the peninsula itself to find a place to put tarp up.

the good:
- It's very remote when you get out there (excluding the Christian sect who live on the penisula, and happened to be out doing some sort of night walk at ~11pm when I was pitching up)
- incredible sunrise, and amazing wildlife. That includes adders (so the sign reckons)
- pub near the finish is a nice touch.
the bad
- Traffic out of London through Chigwell etc on a Friday eve was grim
- Essex is pretty, it's just not that enjoyable to ride in. Too flat, shit drivers, nothing much happens

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JurekB in reply to @honk

Is it actually possible to cross the peninsular - ie ride from where you were at St Peters on the Wall, south of Tillingham back to Burnham-on-Crouch? It was gated years ago, but it was always possible to circumvent the gates. However, following multiple thefts of agricultural equipment more recently, meant that they installed some Proper Gates making it impossible to follow the route south. Which is a shame, because being a private road, means that there is next to zero motorised traffic on it.

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honk in reply to @JurekB

I'm not entirely sure as my route was quite 'out and back', but I do remember from Street View that it looked like a clear route to Burnham was possible, albeit a little inland.

https://www.strava.com/activities/9410662713

If I had longer I'd have considered heading down there and getting the mini ferry to Wallasea Island and come back through Southend etc.

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