No Robin Hoods but lots of Bikes

Wednesday 23/9/15  
We said goodbye to York and our lovely hosts, Jane and Will after a great 2 nights. Today we travelled to Cambridge via Nottingham. I think Rob was hoping to venture into Sherwood Forrest and see men in tights but it wasn't to be we had a look around Nottingham and then continued on towards Cambridge. We stopped at a normal services stop for lunch and could not believe what we

saw. The area was like a massive food-court full of different types of food shops but this isn't what we found amazing. Most of the time when we have stopped for lunch while on the road, the places have been quiet and not busy at all. This stop was

packed with about 500 people, many dressed in blue and

white shirts and tops. We worked out that they were supporters of the Ipswich Football (soccer) team and were on their way to Trent Bridge to play Manchester United. Many coaches and cars were in the carpark. At about 1.30pm they all cleared out and obviously needed to be back on the buses. From here we made good headway to Cambridge arriving around 3pm. We found a high rise carpark about a 20 minute walk from the tourist information centre and the river. I have to say Rob is doing a great job with the "Epic" (the Jeep). It drives really well out on the open road and he has managed to manouvre around carparks that are clearly built for smalled cars. After checking out the things we could do, we decided to go "punting" on the Cam River. We booked into a chauffeured punt tour and set off. The punt was designed to take 12 people but we only had 6 on our trip. It was a

wonderful introduction to the history of the Cambridge and all the different colleges that make up the University. We saw iconic colleges, like Kings College, Queens College, St, Trinity College  etc etc. Our young chauffeur was very good with telling the history as well as the Cambridge students funny pranks stories. Was a wonderful experience. Following this great experience we drove to our B&B which was less than 10 minutes drive from the river. We met the owners who were lovely and were shown to a beautiful self-contained unit which was attached to their house with its own entrance