After a full breakfast, we paid our money and drove to park the car locally in a non-park & pay street, as tipped off by the tourist bureau.
Kings College Chapel first stop. Having seen in Australia the Christmas service televised from there each year. Admittedly always the previous years service. (Check the web link- too much to put here) We must have spent over an hour here, reading looking and absorbing the whole place. The Rubens painting "The Adoration of the Magi" has a history of having been vandalised when IRA was carved across it. Having been restored it is said that if you look at it at a certain angle in the right light you can still see it. I tried , but was unable to.
What a wonderful place, once again the history is overwhelming, just like everything else in this country. We continued to walk around Cambridge taking in all the sights.
Most of the centre area is restricted to bicycles and the odd delivery vans between certain hours. Just about everybody rides one and visitors hire them as well. It's the best way to get about town. At this time of the year whilst all the Cambridge undergraduates are on their summer breaks the colleges fill up with language students from all over the world learning English or attending different conferences. So the place is never empty.
We must have walked for miles however we enjoyed it all.
Time to set off as we wanted to see as much as we can. We drove up to Ely and stopped off for a shared banquette and a look at the Cathedral. (Built by William the Conqueror). On to the North Coast of Norfolk skirting around Kings Lynn , on to the A149 coastal road to look for a B & B for the night. The Kings Head, now the Orange Tree in a little village called Thornham suited us fine. Bed and breakfast and a bar for a a couple of drinks, in the beer garden. We were quite hungry by now and having seen how popular a mobile fish & chip van that was doing a roaring trade just outside in the village square we decided to check it out. We waited our turn to be served, cod for Beatrice and haddock for me. All cooked to order, so it didn't happen all that quickly, mine taking twice as long for some reason. We went back to our room, and as we were in the converted stables we sat outside our room ate and drank the left over wine from the previous day.
Most of the centre area is restricted to bicycles and the odd delivery vans between certain hours. Just about everybody rides one and visitors hire them as well. It's the best way to get about town. At this time of the year whilst all the Cambridge undergraduates are on their summer breaks the colleges fill up with language students from all over the world learning English or attending different conferences. So the place is never empty.
We must have walked for miles however we enjoyed it all.
Time to set off as we wanted to see as much as we can. We drove up to Ely and stopped off for a shared banquette and a look at the Cathedral. (Built by William the Conqueror). On to the North Coast of Norfolk skirting around Kings Lynn , on to the A149 coastal road to look for a B & B for the night. The Kings Head, now the Orange Tree in a little village called Thornham suited us fine. Bed and breakfast and a bar for a a couple of drinks, in the beer garden. We were quite hungry by now and having seen how popular a mobile fish & chip van that was doing a roaring trade just outside in the village square we decided to check it out. We waited our turn to be served, cod for Beatrice and haddock for me. All cooked to order, so it didn't happen all that quickly, mine taking twice as long for some reason. We went back to our room, and as we were in the converted stables we sat outside our room ate and drank the left over wine from the previous day.
For whatever reason I wasn't feeling the best so took to my bed. Spent a sleepless night,very hot, and restless. Anxious about getting enough rest as we had to drive all the way home the next day.
8th August 2007- Homeward journey.
Up for breakfast, one of those full English ones
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