No.46 - Queens Head, Bramfield, Suffolk

Saturday 30th June, 2012

Day 2, and after a slightly uncomfortable night, and a healthy cooked breakfast, it was back on the bikes for the longer leg of the weekend. The final destination for today was going to be Halesworth, but our first stop was The Queens Head in Bramfield. After 1 or 2 slighlty hairy moments along the A12, and the small hill here and there, we arrived safe and sound at the venue at about 11.30am, albeit a little out of breath and wobbly legged.
The pub is a Grade II listed building which has stood in the small village of Bramfield for a number of centuries. It's a lovely looking traditional pub with nice bar and an enormous fireplace, which during the winter must be a pleasure to sit and have a pint or two in front of. The garden was a little un-kept with a couple of areas where I'm sorry to say dogs had used, but the overall views were beautiful. An enormous church out the back loomed large over all the Adnams umbrellas.
With a choice of just Bitter and Broadside, 3 of us went for a very nicely looked after Bitter, but without wanting to name Damo, one of us plumped for an orange and lemonade!
If we hadn't had enough of Pop questions the night before, more quiz questions were being fired at us, by our new Quiz Master, Adrian. A rare old 1000 best pub quiz question book had been found in the bar by Adrian, but this particular version was the 1985 version. To say a few questions were a little out of date wouldn't be an innaccurate statement.
We sat out in the garden for about an hour, and it was beautiful out there. What few clouds there had been originally, had all cleared away and left a perfectly blue sky. We chatted about a number of things, including toilet phobias(!?), but at about 12:30pm it was time to make tracks. The promise of Andy's sausage rolls at the next stop was too tempting so we finished up our drinks and got on our way. Number 46 done!