It turned out a bit like the book 'Bear Hunt' as we found mud - lots and lots of mud. We couldn't go over it, we couldn't go under it, we had to go through it! And it squelched and it squelched and it squelched!
We didn't find snowdrops in the wood though and we did get ever so slightly lost. But when we eventually found our way back to the car we spied some snowdrops on the opposite verge to where we had parked!
But on the way home something rather exciting happened - we took a detour to try and find the dragon. The legend is that in 1405 a dragon appeared out of the river Stour in Sudbury. The townsfolk tried to kill it but all they did was agitate it and it went back into the river towards Bures where it disappeared into a marsh. You can read more here if you want to. I'd heard on the radio that there was now a dragon on a hillside in Bures but until last night I didn't know where it was. We followed the directions I'd been given on twitter and went down a tiny track by a reclamation yard to St Stephen's Chapel.
The chapel was built in about 1200 on the site where Edmund was crowned King of the Angles in 855. And there on the hillside overlooking the chapel we found the dragon.
He's quite impressive and I'm so pleased we found him!
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Oh gosh! I learn something new about Suffolk every day!!!
.... putting that on my walks list.
Thank you :-)
It would be lovely if his flames were daffodils
It's amazing what's tucked away in our countryside! The chapel looks beautiful and rather rustic. I will go and follow up on your links.
It looks rather like my Welsh dragon, in outline.
Well great minds think alike it seems as I also posted about snowdrops after a walk in a wood not too far away, carpeted with yellow aconites and snowdrops. I didn't, sadly, find any dragons.....
I've seen horses on hillsides but never a dragon. So glad you found him.
What a wonderful dragon.....how lucky that you found it!xxx
Oh, wow, he's fab! I am thinking we might need to take a little trip to see him - though I think I'l pass on the mud. We have quite enough of that here, thank you!
I so love Suffolk ... we used to plan to move to Shetland to join friends but now when we eventually retire we hope it will be to Suffolk (I sadly can't see us getting their sooner, the Mr's work is here.)
We used to go dragon hunting in the woods when my lot were small ... not all fallen trees are fallen trees you know, some are sleeping dragons!
Is it a old or new dragon? just curious...he's beautiful!
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