Five weeks away!

We have managed to survive for five weeks away and covered quite a bit of ground.  Fortunately we were not apprehended for wild camping at Aldeburgh and we travelled to a CL between Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds.  The village was called Woolpit.  It was a quaint little place that had lots of old buildings and you could imagine it being a set for a period drama.  The name of the place was nothing to do with wool but involved a story about a wolf pit for catching a wolf but according to the story two 'green'children fell into the pit and they were unable to speak.  Strange story!

The next day (Monday) was almost a wash out.  We stayed put on the site and apart from managing to do some exercise we spent the day reading, doing crosswords, listening to the radio and also watching a DVD (Life on Mars, the drama series about a police officer who had an accident and woke up as a policeman in 1973).

Tuesday has been an improvement and we visited Bury St Edmunds.  It looks a super place with Abbey Ruins and a Cathedral.

Another legend of the area.

St Edmundsbury Catherdral.  It makes me think of Edmund Blackadder!

We moved on to a village outside Cambridge.  The site is next to a rather alternative pub called The Missing Sock!  It seems to have a Turkish menu and is rather ramshackle at the back.  There is a delapidated double decker bus next to our field.  Nevermind, the cycle path goes straight into Cambridge.

Later in the afternoon we went into Cambridge for a recce.  It was pleasant and sunny. We just got our bearings and got some ideas about what to do tomorrow.

View from Kings College Chapel towards the college itself.

Taking a punt on Janice!

We had a little walk along the River Cam.

I am a regular watcher of University Challenge so whilst we are here I feel that I need to revise my knowledge of Renaissance Italian Art and Classical Music.  My standard answers are Caravaggio and Mozart....it doesn't matter what the questions are, I give the same answers anyway!

On a less academic note Cambridge was in the news this week for a different reason.  Following the leak of personal information by an adultery website it transpires that Cambridge was the place with the highest number of people who had signed up for adultery!  I wondered why Janice was holding my hand so tightly!  It should be me who is keeping an eye on Janice because it also turned out that the vast majority of the people on the website are men!