Bury to The Buxhall Crown

The Sunday after our epic Yorkshire Dales tour, we were surprised to find the relatively gentle West Suffolk terrain hard on the legs. The intermittant rain felt familiar though.

We rode eastwards towards Stowmarket as far as Buxhall, for an expensive but delicious lunch - beautifully presented and with excellent service, in the Crown. Two points to note:

• £30 should be enough to feed and water two cyclists at lunchtime. Increasingly, in Suffolk on a Sunday, it's only just enough. Ideally we'd re-fuel in tea rooms, but gastropubs are usually the only option away from the main towns.
• This was the first day of the smoking ban, hence the pub was smoke free. Good.