Saturday 1 December 2018

Do you work here????!!!!

Today accuweather didn't have its predicting hat on correctly. We had to leave the house very - for us - early to catch a train to Cambridge. It was a what were we thinking when we booked this moment but we're happy when we picked the tickets up to learn we could catch any train home. Arriving in Cambridge we found it was raining accuweather had predicted fine with rain for a couple of hours around lunch. Oh well up went the umbrellas and off we walked to find the old part of town, the colleges and the Fitzwilliam museum. Due to poor luck both Trinity and King's college were closed and we were too cheap to spend £20 on visiting St John as it was quite cold and damp. We did visit the Round church who had a very good video of the history of Cambridge and the colleges, a quick walk across a bridge to see the river and a visit to 2 colleges rounded out the morning. We saw the Corpus clock on our walk back to the Fitzwilliam where we had lunch and a wander round. As we had entered through the cafe at the side we had no idea how stunning the entrance was till we were looking around. Unfortunately the English gallery is closed at present but we did get to see The Bridesmaid by Millias which was much smaller than expected. Also saw Human Frailty by Rosa which Maree loved - no surprises there. Went through an awesome sampler exhibition titled Sampled Lives which was an added bonus. We kept getting asked questions about the museum and where things were like we worked there.... very strange especially as there were many uniformed assistants around. Have decided we prefer Oxford to Cambridge. Headed home for some dinner and then made the poor decision to visit the Lego shop. In our defence the 'live' indicate on Google said it was not busy.... it was wrong very wrong. We had to briefly queue but it was worth it the stuff they have built is amazing. Cheryl may have made purchases.





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  1. If i had known you were going to cambridge i could have got dawn to meet with you. she lives not far away and about 5 miles from grantchester.

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