Today we awoke to brilliant sunshine and decided to visit historic Cambridge. We set the GPS and headed off into the beautiful British countryside. The GPS showed a distance about 40 miles.
When we were a few miles out from Cambridge we saw signs saying Park and Ride and knowing that Cambridge is quite a big city we decided to do just that.
We turned in to the car park, paid our £2.60 each for parking and the double decker bus ride into the city and back.
When we arrived in the city we bought tickets on the hop on hop off bus (£10 each for concession and with commentary through headphones) and headed off on the round Cambridge trip. After doing a loop of the city we got off in the city centre and found a large market which had a great range of stuff plus a huge range of shops (Lyn was happy). After we had watched various performers we got on the bus again and did the sightseeing thing.
Cambridge is yet another city heaped in history, even Oliver Cromwell was educated there as was Prince Charles whose higher education was carried out at Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied Anthropology, Archaeology and History. He was later awarded a Master Degree from Cambridge.
It seemed almost every major building was a college or university building and we didn't realise the massive lean to education. There are 22 colleges in the city which was full of young students. As it was Sunday some were relaxing in the many parks but from the tall bus we could see others studying in their rooms. We couldn't enter some colleges because exams were on. On a Sunday?
The city is very picturesque with the Cam River running through it's heart with lots of boating . The river is a tributary to The River Great Ouse.
There were hundreds of bicycles chained up to railings and leaning against the walls presumably belonging to the students. Bicycle helmets are obviously not compulsory in this country as they are in Australia.
After calling in to Marks & Spencer to buy our ready prepared salads and fruit salad for dinner (we have got a bit tired of pub food) we headed home.
When we left Glemsford this morning our trip meter was showing 318 miles to empty. After traveling to Cambridge and back, which was about 90 miles, our trip meter showed 405 miles to empty. If this continues, we are going to have to stop and empty the fuel tank!
Another bright sunny day.
And Mick is so pleased to see the highly aeriel Swifts (birds) swirling over the hotel and flying down the road by the hotel at 10 metres above the ground screeching. Swifts can fly at 100+kph.
Off to Norwich tomorrow.
St Mary's Church Cambridge
The American Cemetery in Cambridge. It contains nearly 4000 headstones of American Soldiers killed during WW2.
A cab
The Champion of the Thames is one of the smaller pubs in Cambridge and is one of the pubs visited during a competition which involves consuming one pint of beer in each of the 11 pubs in King Street in the quickest time without visiting the Loo!
Memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales
The Cam River
The Anglican Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge known as The Round Church. It dates back to 1130AD.
Lyn on the grass with the young people. At our age everyone is young.
Trio in the Market Square. They were very good.
Gate of Kings College, Cambridge
Cam River with wooden bridge with a history
This guy was amazing but we couldn't work out how he was propped up
Practising for the Great Race. Apparently Cambridge Scholars refer to Oxfrord as "The other place". And vice versa.
When we were a few miles out from Cambridge we saw signs saying Park and Ride and knowing that Cambridge is quite a big city we decided to do just that.
We turned in to the car park, paid our £2.60 each for parking and the double decker bus ride into the city and back.
When we arrived in the city we bought tickets on the hop on hop off bus (£10 each for concession and with commentary through headphones) and headed off on the round Cambridge trip. After doing a loop of the city we got off in the city centre and found a large market which had a great range of stuff plus a huge range of shops (Lyn was happy). After we had watched various performers we got on the bus again and did the sightseeing thing.
Cambridge is yet another city heaped in history, even Oliver Cromwell was educated there as was Prince Charles whose higher education was carried out at Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied Anthropology, Archaeology and History. He was later awarded a Master Degree from Cambridge.
It seemed almost every major building was a college or university building and we didn't realise the massive lean to education. There are 22 colleges in the city which was full of young students. As it was Sunday some were relaxing in the many parks but from the tall bus we could see others studying in their rooms. We couldn't enter some colleges because exams were on. On a Sunday?
The city is very picturesque with the Cam River running through it's heart with lots of boating . The river is a tributary to The River Great Ouse.
There were hundreds of bicycles chained up to railings and leaning against the walls presumably belonging to the students. Bicycle helmets are obviously not compulsory in this country as they are in Australia.
After calling in to Marks & Spencer to buy our ready prepared salads and fruit salad for dinner (we have got a bit tired of pub food) we headed home.
When we left Glemsford this morning our trip meter was showing 318 miles to empty. After traveling to Cambridge and back, which was about 90 miles, our trip meter showed 405 miles to empty. If this continues, we are going to have to stop and empty the fuel tank!
Another bright sunny day.
And Mick is so pleased to see the highly aeriel Swifts (birds) swirling over the hotel and flying down the road by the hotel at 10 metres above the ground screeching. Swifts can fly at 100+kph.
Off to Norwich tomorrow.
St Mary's Church Cambridge
The American Cemetery in Cambridge. It contains nearly 4000 headstones of American Soldiers killed during WW2.
A cab
The Champion of the Thames is one of the smaller pubs in Cambridge and is one of the pubs visited during a competition which involves consuming one pint of beer in each of the 11 pubs in King Street in the quickest time without visiting the Loo!
Memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales
The Cam River
The Anglican Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge known as The Round Church. It dates back to 1130AD.
Lyn on the grass with the young people. At our age everyone is young.
Trio in the Market Square. They were very good.
This guy was amazing but we couldn't work out how he was propped up
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