Monday, June 21, 2010

Tuesday 22nd June 2010…road trip Day 1!!!!

Yesterday we left Cottingham and a 3 hour drive later found us in the wonderful old city of Cambridge.  I had booked one night at a Bed and Breakfast that was recommended in my Lonely Planet book..

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The room is great and we look forward to breakfast here later on today.

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The B & B is a ten minute walk to the city centre and on the way we stopped and had a picnic…

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The old buildings and churches and the universities are incredible..

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One of the thrills was seeing a huge gathering of some sort…

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especially when we found out that prince Phillip was in attendance…

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We then spent a delightful hour being “punted” down the river Cam…

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The views from the river of the different colleges is quite stunning and they cannot be viewed any other way!!

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We shall have great memories from this river trip.

We then continued our walking about…

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We arrived back at the B & B at 7.30pm in time for me to watch another World Cup soccer game, then we relaxed and reminisced about the fabulous day we had…heading down for breakfast now then heading to London….

You will notice a few different features on the photos…Sara took most of the photos and then she edited them as well!!!

1 comment:

Croft said...

I like the "antiqued" photo Sara did.

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