A Walk to the Railway Tavern, Mellis, Suffolk - 13th October 2024

In keeping with the recent-ish discovery of Sunday pub walks, with the Scole Crossways and Hoxne Swan already done, we have a look on a map for any others and realise that the Railway Tavern in Mellis isn't really that far away - an eight-mile round trip as it turns out. So that's what we do, with a walk via Thrandeston and Judas Lane, followed by a couple of beers. Before that, the Northern Lights return for the second time this year.

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The old Post Office in Diss is boarded up

The old Post Office in Diss is boarded up

The north-west sky is filled with light

The Northern Lights over the house

There's an almost-vertical stack of red

Another view of the aurorae over the house

Looking up at an electricty pylon

Isobel negotiates a small bridge

We walk across the fields to Thrandeston

Isobel pauses beyond another small bridge

Some cows give us the hairy eyeball

Isobel near the old pub in Thrandeston

We head off up Judas Lane

Judas Lane, between Thrandeston and Mellis

Isobel checks her phone

Some sort of pumping station in Mellis

The mysterious Mellis Garden's gates

Outside the Railway Tavern in Mellis

Mellis's stained-glass K6 phonebox

Isobel gets the beers in

The Tavern's train-like seating

Gypsy nags on Mellis common

Isobel feeds the horses some fresh grass

The ramshackle shed on the edge of Mellis common

Isobel on the road back to Thrandeston

Seagulls peck over freshly-ploughed soil

Isobel strides off up the road

A hare pauses in front of a stack of bales

Funky orange fungus on a log

An abandoned trailer of telegraph poles

Some sort of wrecked silos or tanks

Isobel wanders past a wrecked farm building

A roof is missing some corrugated iron

A perfect mushroom - upside down

A squirrel perches on a fence post