Cambridge

Last weekend we decided not to go to London, but to go for a bit of a road trip to Cambridge. We had two plans actually - if it was bad weather we were going to Freeport, Braintree to do some shopping at the outlet shops; good weather would be Cambridge. Thankfully, it was a beautiful day.

I picked Tamara up and we headed up the motorway. There was no way I could have gotten a photo of them, but there was a big group of deer in one of the fields that we went past. That was exciting on its own! We found our way to Cambridge, and did a quick drive around before parking. The main thing that we wanted to do there was to go punting, but we wanted to look around as well.


We set off towards the main streets, and found some markets to look through along the way. Then, after a quick stop at Paperchase for Tamara, we decided to head towards the river. In the end, we were approached by someone offering punting tours on the River Cam (legit tours, not just some random guy), and we decided to give that a go. It was so much fun! Granted, it would have been better without being jammed in with so many other people, but it was gorgeous. The trip took us past many of the colleges, including Trinity College and Queens' College, and our guide provided a little history for us. He also told us a lot about the bridges, including the Mathematical Bridge (the wooden one), the Bridge of Sighs and the Clare College Bridge, with a section missing from one of the globes on the top of it.



Cambridge had plenty of daffodils and crocuses to keep us occupied with taking photos of flowers. This is just a couple of them!



After we got off the punt, we wandered around the town, before having lunch at our old standard, a Wetherspoons pub. We were at the wrong end of town from where it was, decided we wanted a burger and beer combo (or J20 for me), and walked all the way back from where we'd come from, only to then decide to have a roast - after walking past pub after pub offering a Sunday roast. Well played!

After lunch we headed back to the car, to head back home. Along the way though, we decided to go to Colchester. Tamara had been to the zoo there, and that's still on my list of places to go, but neither of us had actually been to the town itself. It was late on the Sunday afternoon, but we thought we'd have a quick look and see if there was anything we wanted to go back for. Turned out to be a good plan - it was just like every other town, and there was nothing remarkable to go back for. I think I probably will go back at some point, to have a better look around, as it's supposed to be the oldest town in England. I need to do a bit more research on that one - surely there's something different to see there!