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Jam Factory Ride
20 July 2008

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Congratulations to those who did the Dunwich Dynamo, but to some of the other of us who went to the jam factory instead, well, the cream tea was fantastic, I tell you, huge scones and of course there was the jam. James Bond used to name drop Little Scarlet (strawberry) jam, along with all the other loads of product placements. Ian Flemming must have gotten cases of it for years.

There was a quick wade around in the ocean at West Mersea with the jellyfish, as well as a cafe that serves 2 egg sandwiches (a welcome technological innovation from the normal 1 egg ones) and huge helpings of chips.

We didn't get trapped on the Mersea Island after all, but maybe if we had, the Essex boys zipping around on their jet skis could have rescued us if we had. Tollesbury was quaint with the flooded road. And we got 2 minutes of rain and were forced to hide out under a boat. Somebody needs to organize a ride back to try out the pool. It is posted that they have a very strict limit of 1000 people in the pool, we need to try and get 1001 in there to see what happens. Personally, I don't think you can fit more than 960 people in there.

And the jam factory, having taken home the rhubarb ginger jam, I can recommend it. I'm still trying to figure out how that strange tricycle in the museum works. For a factory, it was a pretty decent museum. Of course, I was probably totally on a sugar and cream high at that point from the cream tea.

Thanks to all that I pumped for information about travel across Russia, China, etc. All has been assimilated and incorporated into the round the world travel plan.

And thanks for Dave and Caroline for putting it together.

Kerry

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