Our U3A bus pass group outing last week was a tad convoluted. We went to Epping but there isn't a direct bus from Chelmsford so we went via Ongar. And then to get home the Ongar bus is only every 2 hours so if we had gone back to Ongar and got the timing wrong there would have been a 2 hour wait, so we went to Harlow and caught the bus from there! Ongar is a nice place but we didn't stop, just caught the connecting bus to Epping.
where we strolled around, had coffee and cake and did a bit of retail therapy.
Many people describe Harlow in a derogatory manner. I don't know it well, only having travelled through it, and visiting the hospital when my grandson was born. It does have a very nice smart shopping mall
with a lovely water garden. I think there is a notice asking people not to feed the fish but I think they do because these came up to us very quickly.
We visited an excellent art gallery.
Piglet has a history. On the 8th January 1985 he was stolen from his plinth in the children's library at Basildon. The following day he was discoverd on a grass area at the rear of the building, missing an ear. After repair he was given to the gallery.
There are lots of exhibits and they hold regular exhibitions of all kinds of arts and crafts.
Everyone had a lovely day out and we caught a direct bus back home.
∼ Be safe and well∼
Polly x
Two hour wait if missed, at least looks like there's fun things to see everywhere.
ReplyDeleteDespite the convoluted travel it was a good day.
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DeleteThat does indeed look like an interesting art gallery, well worth a visit!
ReplyDeleteIt is lovely.
DeleteI sometimes wonder why people steal such odd things like the pig from the library plinth. It seems so random. Glad he was able to be patched up and is in a safe place now. So glad you enjoyed your day out.
ReplyDeleteI agree Lorrie. Perhaps they just wondered if they could do it for a bit of fun, then it snowballed from there.
DeleteThat looks like a great day out. And a very interesting art gallery.
ReplyDeleteIt was, on both counts.
DeleteI like Piglet!
ReplyDeleteSo did I :-)
DeleteDespite the scheduling issues, Polly, your day trip turned out to be a lovely experience from the posted photos, glad that piglet was recovered safely.
ReplyDeleteIt did turn out to be a good day :-)
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