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Friday 22nd - Sunday 24 August 2003
Who'd have thought we could have a full on countryside weekend adventure in London? For the last bank holiday of the year we decided to visit Epping Forest. Just 20 miles from home we were surrounded by forest in Debden House Campsite. It was a pretty looking, large 5 field site carved into the woods. We'd recommend it for the location alone even though the facilities we're so filthy!
We had dashed off after work on Friday night and upon arrival, chilled out in the dusk with a bottle of wine. Saturday morning dawned bright and warm. After bacon snadwiches and coffee we jumped on the bikes for a day long tour of the Forest. As you can see from the map we covered the length and breadth of the forest and some of the Lea Valley too. We stopped for lunch at a canal-side pub and headed home via Queen Elizabeth I's hunting lodge.
We awoke on Sunday with saddle-sore behinds and decided to have a leisurely morning picking a tub full of blackberries to freeze for use later in blackberry and apple crumbles. We motored home along the very unpretty North Circular and marvelled at what a woodland oasis Epping Forest is amidst all this traffic and grime.
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