A few miles beyond Lavenham we arrived at the rather unbeautiful and non-historic Acton Place Industrial bEstate/b, where we had our brevet cards signed before going into Wally's Cafe to order mugs of tea (and, in some cases, a large fried breakfast). By now it was about 11.15am, ... We rode through Clare and a series of villages familiar from club day rides: bPoslingford/b, Stansfield, Denston, Wickambrook and Gazeley, where a sign said we were only 4 miles from Newmarket. ...
