The Other Side of Essex | Adventure on Your Doorstep (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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We headed off bright and early for a two day motorcycle tour of Maldon District in Essex to discover the lesser known areas of Essex and discover adventure on our doorstep.
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Locations:
The start of the day:
- Tollesbury Wick Nature Reserve, Woodrolfe Rd, Tollesbury, Maldon CM9 8SB
Brunch:
- The Lock Tiptree Tea Room, Basin Rd, Heybridge Basin, Maldon CM9 4RS
Explore Heybridge Basin
Afternoon Tea:
- The Barge Tearooms, Sailing Barge Resourceful, Cooks Yard, The Hythe Quay, Maldon CM9 5HN, England
Explore Maldon
Hotel:
- The Limes Hotel, 21 Market Hill, Maldon CM9 4PZ
Dinner:
- Luigi’s Al Fresco, 21 Market Hill, Maldon CM9 4PZ
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Gear For The Day:
Helmet: Exklusiv Rage Shiny Black
Jacket: Belstaff Brooklands
Gloves: Throttlesnake Pit Viper
Jeans: Broger Moto California Washed Blue Jeans
Boots: TCX X-Blend
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Timeline:
0:00: Intro
2:03: Tollesbury Wick Nature Reserve
4:49:The Lock Tiptree Tea Rooms
7:20: Heybridge Basin (and a Volvo 240)
9:56: The Barge Tearooms, Maldon
15:43: Maldon Town
17:47: The Limes Hotel, Maldon
21:17: Luigi's Al Fresco, Maldon
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These Old Bones: Sunrise Stadium
Staffan Carlen: Did I Make You Wait
Arc De Soleil Little BeeBee
Gavin Luke: Into That Great Goodnight
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For me really "Adventure on Your Doorstep" and very happy to see a true English Essex countryside adventure
Really enjoy your vids Fred, ever enthusiastic and positive, you've got a great outlook on life 👍
Great to see the sights of Essex, I’m only slightly north of there in Norfolk so will make the effort to explore the county soon 👍
Looks fabulous! Looking forward to part 2!
Thank you Freddie & Monica, Sunday morning has now started on a high as I sit on the porch drinking my coffee and enjoying your adventures. I’m amazed you made it through the Italian dinner after all of those cakes and scones for lunch. Well done for getting out and braving the English summer weather - always a challenge. I hope the Essex board of tourism picked up the tab for your hotel and dinner!
Delighted to be your Sunday morning viewing, Nick!🙂
I very nearly politely declined dinner… but if was so delicious i probably could’ve had seconds in the end😆🍝
Great video quality and content Freddie and Monica, how lovely to see that part of Essex, with so much history!!
The weather seems to be ind to you as well!!
That’s what usually lets the uk down!!
Love your choice of soundtracks that accompany your videos, any chance of listing them at the end of the videos as credits or in the comments!
Be great for music appreciates!!
Looking forward to more of your journeys.
Very best wishes.
Thanks Nigel! I was so happy it didn’t rain🙌🏻 I include the song list in the written description of each video (close to the bottom🙂)
Just watched this with my 13yr old son who was interested all the way through…. He said “this guy is very enthusiastic isn’t he” they’ve had the perfect day…. Really looked like you did! Great to have you back show casing how beautiful the UK is. 😀👍🏻👌🏻 Cheers Dan
I’m so happy to hear you both enjoyed it! We loved every second of it🙂
I missed the beautiful UK videos
Freddie is very enthusiastic isn't he? It would be very easy to make a very boring video about Essex, but Freddie and Monica are just so engaging.
Great show Brutha, I’m Hawaiian but my Great, great 👵🏻is English, originally from England. Definitely Essex is gonna be on my bucket 🪣 list🗒. -ML&Aloha Your Boy Kekoa&Ohana.🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾
Another fascinating video Freddie. It was great to meet you at the Bike Shed on Saturday (I was the guy with the Northern Irish accent). Safe journey to Barcelona.
Beautiful quality video as always Freddie, the editing and music (expect for that Coldplay 👀) was great and you are genuinely one of the most engaging and enthusiastic people on TV/UA-cam
Good video of Maldon, the hotel looks lovely and the Italian was an good added extra 👍
Just found your channel and loved the content. Great easy going style and informative as well. Saw the trip to Barcelona before this one. Enjoyed it do I hit the dub button. If I must say something that could be upgraded is your camera. The quality isn't up to date. In my opinion anyway. Other than that it is great. Just a small correction. The Volvo was a Volvo 121, also known as the Amazon 😉👍.Cheers! 🇸🇪🇬🇧
Great video and great bike. I also have a T100, one of the first injection models and it is a Gold Line model, one of the originals in that gorgeous green and cream colour. I bought mine as a lock down project back in 2020. It was basically a good bike but lacking in love so I set about improving it whilst keeping it looking as original as I could. I improved the engine, re-mapped with better intake and exhausts. Got rid of all the emission control stuff that made it run too lean. I did need to change the mirrors for bar end ones as I' am big (as in big 6'3", 180 lbs, not fat) and my shoulders got in the way. But why did you put back the original headlight mounting brackets with the horrible pressed steel ones? I have a set of Motone Customs billets and I think they look so much better. OK, I understand its all a question of taste but really? Cheap pressed steel originals over billet ones? (PS: I chucked mine in the recycling bin as I thought they were worthless. Obviously I know nothing).
BTW, this is not a criticism just an observation. Love your Vids will keep watching and leaving a like. 👆 John
We've booked Tenerife for a week and are hiring motorcycles, inspired by your vids. As minor UA-cam film makers we are in awe of Monika's film making skills. So much of what makes your vids so watchable is the small stuff, the B roll, the edit the music.
Off course Freddie does a great enthusiastic job of presenting. Great work.
You must visit Finchingfield, it's a very picturesque village, only 23 miles from maldon, then maybe onto Saffron Walden
240??? Its a «Herrgårdsvagnen» an Amazon station wagon--B18/B20....
Brilliant watch - thankyou. Having just settled in Colchester, I will certainly be experiencing the cream tea in Maldon.
Good Video Freddie and Monika, Essex is better than it’s given credit for, I don’t. Live far from Maldon and was out riding around There this morning, some decent roads, on a sunny Sunday morning it a nice ride. Looking forward to pt2.
A joy as always.
Essex like Tenerife gets a bad rep but as you found quite delightful in areas if you just made a small effort to expand your horizons..
Your quite right the county's reputation is forever tarnished by programs like The only Way is Essex etc! like all the counties it has a 'Wrong side of the Tracks' ... the southern part and towards London is congested and industrialised. I lived in Southend for years but loved riding the country lanes and visiting the small town/villages of the northern and north-eastern part of the county....
Is your food always cold by the time you eat? Great to see Essex looking so beautiful, added to the touring list now.
Honestly… yes it is quite iften😆🍝
Lovely & interesting video.
Cured my ignorance about Essex. Never been. Never thought about going because of certain stereotypes.
Looks worth a peep.
A flock of Ponies 🤣that has literally made our day🤣
I’ve been looking in the sky for months and haven’t seen any yet!
Great video. I live just up the road from Maldon. The promenade walk is nice on a decent day. The Tiptree Jam factory museum is well worth a visit. Actually had His and Hers personalised whiskey marmalade and champagne strawberry jams for the favours on tables at our wedding. Looking forward to next video 👍
That’s brilliant- It’s great to have such a well known local company still going so strong, and I live the personalisation👌🏻👌🏻
Just watching your latest vid. Can't believe you were in Tollesbury (where I live) I would have said hello. Great vids. Keep up the adventures and hi to Monica too
No way! It was the first time there for me. Lovely area🙂👌🏻
Great work Fred, the Blackwater estuary is really underrated as is Essex
Thank you my friend..this will be my second visit on your fantastic recommendation! My first was your Suffolk trip, we had a great time, me and my wife! Great work. Ride safe👍🏻
Thank you Ben!🙂
Amazing you haven't been scouted for a professional travel/history/review show yet! You've definitely got the skills for it.
My two favorite hobbies, sailboats and motorbikes. Beautiful area.
I keep forgetting how beautiful England is. Another captivating video to put Tenerife behind us. You guys have done it again I really think I'm experiencing this with the 2 of you.
Good video Freddie, I've often cycled around Maldon. After a visit to the barge it's really hard to get your legs spinning again. Nice bumping into you yesterday at the Bike Shed show, Mr Jones.
I couldn’t move for an hour after!😆🍰
A pleasure to meet you🙂
Nice one Freddie and Monika, never been to Essex but your video has definitely sparked my interest....
Awesome video and awesome content can’t wait for the next video Thank’s Freddie and Monika
Guys !!!! you always find the best places to be ! and I have mentioned this before Monica just knows class when she sees it the one time she may have slipped up is when she found you .🤣🤣🤣 just kidding I am sure she doesn't feel that way ,who knew Essex had such gems nestled in it . 👍Good one guys .
Well Monika LOVES this comment!🤣🤣
I live in the area of Essex in the video,, and it’s very beautiful,, it’s a shame Maldon council seems hell bent on destroying the beauty by allowing over development and a huge rise in the population, It feels like this part of Essex is too nice and has to be destroyed.
Lovely video Freddie, great to see you both back in the UK.
The area you’re in looks superb, never been to Essex but this has made us want to come over and explore. Well done with the two last scones!! 😀
Thanks very much Jonathan🙂 It’s a lovely area with so much history- we hugely enjoyed it!
Over confidence in battle really is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Love this part of the UK - well done for highlighting this overlooked part of Essex. Love the videos. Hope you are both settling back into UK life. We are heading to El Medano in September!
Thanks very much! There’s so much history in Essex- it’s a fascinating place.
It feels very nice to be back in the UK!
Fantastic, I bet you’re counting down the days ‘til El Medano🙂🏝
@@FreddieDobbs Can't wait for Tenerife. Daydreaming about retirement there...only 12 years to go! Stay well and safe travels Freddie.
The defenders of Maldon should have served the Vikings afternoon tea it appears, that would have stuffed them.
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Hi Freddie. I think most people in the UK think of Essex as boring and without anything of interest to visit. Your vid shows that this is not the case and really makes me want to go there. Well done ! You ought to do similar trips around every other British county !
Freddie did you know the Limes Hotel used to be a dentist back in the 1950,s.
Nice to cee u and Monica , about time lady got a scooter 🛵
That's my old doorstep.
I lived Manningtree and Colchester.
I swear Freddie is related to Jude Law ? very handsome educated young man and i wonder what happened to Jude Law ? he seemed to vanish ? maybe he changed his name to Freddie Dobbs ? who knows lol
Hi Freddie, great to see videos of the UK, (I kind of lost interest with Teneriffe). Good to see you featuring East Anglia, an area largely ignored by the msm( or is it because so many of them live here?) Also my home. I think you'll find the "breks" is the driest part of the country, up in Norfolk. If you're looking for a 5star breakfast, get along to Landguard Point in Felixstowe. You can watch the huge container ships being loaded while Monica and you eat. Another good ride out is to the Isle of Ely. You go through the breaks, the fens( which both beautiful, boring, inspiring and depressing in equal measure) you'll understand when you experience it. Ely is small, but the cathedral has to be seen to be believed. DON'T MISS THE WATERFRONT CAFÉS AND PUBS.. love your videos as due to menieres disease my biking days are over for now. I'm keeping my 900 Thruxton, just incase they find a cure. Safe riding mate.
Great video Freddie (and Monika) this area is right on my doorstep, spend hours riding round the lanes on the Dengie peninsula, hope Pt2 gets you to Mersea Island.
Certainly back in Essex when you bought out the big chain and padlock for the helmets. . . . Welcome home! 🤣🤣🤐
You can never be too safe😆🔐
Thanks Richie!
Nice to see Maldon and the surounding areas again. I used to live and work around that whole area (based at Bradwell on Sea, just a few miles down river from Maldon). Some great biking roads in those parts.
Freddie, you were right about the year for that Volvo, however a bit off with the model. The 240 did not arrive until many years later. I think that one was an Amazon. Like you, I hope it gets rescued.
Flock of ponies? It's just like listening to David Attenborough. Great film nevertheless. You're absolutely right about Essex, the coastline and parts of the interior are really beautiful. Nobody expects it because everyone thinks Range Rover murders and TOWIE. Love the history around there - much of it down to the proximity of France and the Low Countries. Bloody Vikings, what a pain in the ass they were. Did you and Monika set off with the goal of eating your own bodyweight? Looks like you're half-way there. Those round chrome mirrors took me right back to the 1970s. When are you going to get a touring screen? MadStad Engineering of Florida make some lovely ones, the one on my Beemer came from there and it's ACE!
'The UK would have won the World Cup'. Who? That barge has been well-converted. I used to live in Southend and never went to Maldon. At least, I don't think I did. Fascinating place. I missed out. Expensive room.
Just seen you on Andy Flyer bike shed vid and decided to give you a watch. Glad I did, love doing wee rambles on my motorcycles. Very interesting and a big up to the UK. An hour on a bike and your in the country any where in the UK.
Cheers from Fife Scotland 🏴
Most excellent video both, although I feel it should be subtitled "Freddie & Monica eat their way round Essex."
I'm looking forward to the accompanying guidebook that I trust Monica is busy writing
Hi Fredster,
It’s nice to see you both back in Blighty and promoting my county. That cream tea was massive. Was it really for two? It could have fed four.
Did King Olaf have permission from the National Trust warden to camp on Northey Island? I know they´re very strict about that sort of thing.
Lovely video. Hope you visited Poulson Creative Customs motorcycle dealer in Heybridge while you were in the area.
Loved watching this, lived in Maldon as a boy but emigrated to Australia.
Also riding a Triumph and enjoy your enthusiasm for the lifestyle.
Great to see Maldon hasn't changed too much over the years.
Welcome to my “hood”. About 90% of Essex is like this, all countryside and seaside 😁👍
Somewhere, somehow there is a history/travel program with your name on it, gotta be! BBC...come on!!!!!
Moved to Essex 20 years ago from east London..wouldn't live anywhere else..much underrated good road and train links beautiful architecture and now three cities aswell as large towns like maldon many small villages and tiny hamlets..as much history as you could ever want fantastic county..
Hi brother greet from malaysia. Nice vblog as always. Just wondering how you keep ur nice bag and boots from rain and wet brother
Lovely place but I'm skeptical about the en suite bathroom with no ceiling for obvious reasons 😁
This is not far from me and I can’t believe how wonderful it is
Thanks for opening my eyes to what is available on your doorstep
Did visit Essex sponsor you?
Great video
Thanks very much! This was a collaboration with Visit Essex🙂
Yet again another well presented and interesting video, a blustery day that turned out into a lovely evening.
One of my pet hates is the weather in this country, living in rural South Wales many a time I feel so sorry for the holiday campers and caravaners as the wind and clouds rush across the valleys followed closely by the rain that's often regional, brilliant sunshine this morning but as I type this and look through the window it's started to rain.
Ahhhh i’m with you 100% Lee!!☁️☁️
Great vid. Walked past your bike on my way to the Bike Shed Show on Saturday.
Volvo comes up as white on dvla
I missed that!
Haha, i'm a local to Maldon this was really interesting to watch. That Volvo has been there for years and years! I think it's been abandoned now, used to have a battery lead under the bonnet but no more!
Thank you for highlighting how beautiful Essex is Freddie and Monika (I was born in Chelmsford and grew up in Doddinghurst near Brentwood). Used to love going to Maldon when growing up. Now living in Norwich in another of your neighbouring counties. You guys would love Norwich and the North Norfolk coast. A great touring county for motor bikes. Another wonderful vlog!
Wow loved this one you guys. Beautiful part of the world. And I’m so fascinated by the history you can walk into right there.
I'm infrequently impressed with a bike vlogger, the very best of them don't commit to researching the geography and historical context half as much as Freddie. The package he gives for free on utube would be better placed on TV in my opinion. I would put money on this guy being the next Clarkson.
Your videos are just the perfect thing to watch with a nice cup of coffee ☕👌
"The UK won the worldcup" 😂😂
Mate, this is soooo cool! Might please sharing the helmet brand?
Can you also please share the route map !! This will help us to plan the trips..
You give Paul Bethany vibes, you are turning out to be one of my fav bike reviewers.
pretty town , barge fun history nice music annoying so we mute. +
That's a Volvo Amazon, not a 240.
Love the jacket ! gonna have to get a plan together to convince my wife that I need one 😉
exept of the other things i like i also like the way you speak english is almost perfect,with love for what you are doing whith Monica ,from greece
Really appreciated, thank you!
Think it was a volvo 120 estate
Iv lived in maldon for nearly 3 years now and didn’t no about some of these places. Thanks 😊
Really glad you found some new places with this, Mustafa🙂
Wee bit of everything, food, travel, history and the biking, love it 👍 Hope to see you across the pond someday in N.Ireland/Ireland.
I must visit Ireland soon (I’ve been meaning to for ages!)
@@FreddieDobbs just be sure to bring your winter gear (whatever the season lol).
I love my Triumph too…
Liked and subscribed !
i think you would be good on tv dude
Shame about the Muzak…
Freddie Dobbs = good vibes
Hi Freddie and Monika..great vlog to start the day with over a coffee..content, production the usual high standard..it’s a fab area..I think they produce salt flakes there too? Must visit/stay there this summer. Bfn
I was wondering if they produce salt flakes there, I’m sure you must be right! Thanks Alan, have a great day🙂
Wow , what a fantastic day
Have been watching few of your videos lately. I see class in it.
Amazing narration Fred..
Hope to see monika facing cam some day too.
Hello from 🇮🇳
Thanks Shrawan!
Flock of ponies?
Do you do a lot of fasting?
You Deserve more subs
I grow up a few miles from Maldon. When in infant school in the early fifties we would have day trips to Maldon.... we used to call it 'Mouldy Maldon'...childrens attempt at humour.....How little did we know then...I returned many times later in life to photograph the Thames Barges and other nautical aspects of Maldon very quite and unspoiled.....point of interest.. Maldon Sea Salt is sold here in Spain.
That’s brilliant- it makes it all the way to Spain (I didn’t even know about Maldon salt until last week)
@@FreddieDobbs I used to travel all around that area, Haybridge basin was a particular favourite for photography... I seen to remember ''Lovejoy'' was film around that area...also there was, perhaps still is, a photograph of Ian McShane, Joanna Lumley and Phylis Logan hanging in the Jolly Sailor Pub. You brought back some happy memories of my youth in that part of England.. Thanks...I've subscribed
I have watched your videos since early days and they get better and better but this one just excels! Keep it up!
That means a lot, thank you🙂
Nice one Freddie
Lovely.
You guys do such a nice job…you should put on your own touring company….I keep saying you guys should be hired for tourism insights….great job!!!
I love your jacket Freddie! Who makes that? Just finished your 3 part Tenerife vlog then obviously subscribed it was brilliant 👏
That Mystery Machine! I hope you also like Scooby Doo!
Great content as usual Freddie and Monica, plenty of food in this one 😂, watch that waist line you two
I very nearly went without dinner, I was so full. I had a last minute change of heart😆🍝
Way different hotel cost compared to your hotels you used in Tenerife, let’s not forget some of those were old and just as beautiful. Lovely area though I moved away from the south 56 yr back, and if anything it’s looks like the area has improved a lot since the early 60s, we used to fish for eels back then in my little row boat, happy days class video as usual from yourself and Monica.
I sure hope you 2 are on the Isle of Man now or soon...Can't be that close and not get at least a couple of days there maybe camping out roughing it a bit while your young and strong...Motorcycle heaven right now...if you don't go I will unsubscribe and send you a scathing letter about my disapproval of your life style choices and I will no longer watch you sipping coffee....lol....get on with it Man !