{"id":39,"date":"2008-02-03T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2008-02-04T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T08:38:54","slug":"dengie-peninsula-february-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/ride-reports\/dengie-peninsula-february-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengie Peninsula (February, 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight Months On…<\/p>\n

Next week it will be eight months since the accident. During the early parts of my recuperation I had doubts whether I would get back on a bike again, not because I didn’t want to, but because of the consequences I realised it could have on others. I’m not a superstitious person, but after I got home from the bike shop a couple of weeks ago, I realised it was seven weeks and seven days after the accident that I bought another bike, coincidentally on the same day that a 777 had a rather rough landing at Heathrow. If I was superstitious, I’m not sure what those omens would mean for the years to come.<\/p>\n

Work commitments, and to be honest a bit of caution with the winter weather, have meant I’ve not been able to get out on the bike that much for the intervening two weeks, apart from a blast on fast roads and motorways, but today I took it for a tootle around the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, UK. The peninsula is a fairly flat bit of land, which meant I felt every bit of the 35mph winds and 6C temperature, but it felt good to be back on two wheels again.<\/p>\n

After trundling through the attractive little town of Maldon, my first stop was the memorial to the 121 airmen that left Bradwell Bay during World War II, never to return.<\/p>\n

\"R.A.F.<\/a><\/p>\n

The air base has long gone, and at one end is now Bradwell Power Station, a twin Magnox reactor that has also seen its useful life come and go since the airfield closed, and is now being decommissioned.<\/p>\n

\"Bradwell<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2006, Bradwell was listed third in the potential sites for new power stations after Hinkley Point and Sizewell, so it could see life again.
\n\"Bike<\/a><\/p>\n

After that I rode down to Burnham-on-crouch, a small seaside town. I was keen on spending a bit of time riding, so I didn’t explore that much of the town, or several other of the places in the area, such as the church of St. Peter-on-the-wall, founded by St. Cedd in 654 A.D.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take a lot of photographs either, but when when I passed through the village of Cold Norton and saw a pub called “The Norton” in the typeface of the famous marque, and with a motorcycle on the sign, I couldn’t help myself.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

GPS Co-ordinates, R.A.F. Bradwell Memorial<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Latitude: 51.73129N, Longitude: 0.89854E<\/p>\n

GPS Co-ordinates, Cold Norton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Latitude: 51.67181N, Longitude: 0.67206E<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight Months On… Next week it will be eight months since the accident. During the early parts of my recuperation I had doubts whether I would get back on a bike again, not because I didn’t want to, but because of the consequences I realised it could have on others. I’m not a superstitious person,… Continue reading Dengie Peninsula (February, 2008)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}