Cambridge is a short (45 minute) train journey from King’s Cross and a totally doable day trip from London so Rache gathered a few of us for today’s journey. The main aim was just to have a day away from London and get some punting in – so nothing too stressful. Cambridge is also Rache’s kind of second home as she spent about four months working and living there about three years ago but hasn’t been back since so it was kind of like a reunion visit for her.

Today was the perfect day for the trip – the sun was out, not too many gray clouds in the sky and fairly warm. I may sound surprised because it is after all summer … but it’s the English summer. Enough said.

The last time I was in Cambridge was 2003 – the first time I visited England and that was such a short visit (in Winter) that I all I remember seeing was the Round Church and a couple of the colleges. This time around the visit was noticeably longer (we finally got back to London at 10pm tonight having left at 10am this morning …)

Our first stop was ice cream:

And then punting.

Cam, Rita, Ben and I took turns taking our punt down the river Cam. It was hard going. As I went last I was able to take advantage of the “learning” from the other punters and actually managed to steer the punt generally in the right direction. It was hard work though trying to avoid the other punts (there was a lot of traffic on the river Cam) and the eye candy was a little distracting too. 🙂

The eye candy:

After punting and grabbing a bite to eat we headed into the high street for a walk and stroll past the colleges then hopped on the hop on hop off bus for a quick whirlwind drive around town:

The bus was followed by a walk in the park and pub crawl of sorts:

Ending at the final pub where we had some dinner and has some tasty blue cider: