Waspberry Whipple!

We had a full day in Cambridge and it has confirmed in our mind that it is a lovely town.  We enjoyed our cycle along the river into the town and we had a little plan of visiting a couple of museums and a college.

Kings College Chapel.

First of all we went to Fitzwilliam Museum.

This is the museum entrance.  It looked rather grand.  It is an art museum and had exhibits by many famous painters including Constable, Monet, Picasso, Canaletto, Turner, Rubens, Ruskin and many more.  Sadly, there was nothing by Caravaggio....my favourite University Challenge answer.  It was an excellent museum and to cap it all, it was free!

We had our picnic on a bench outside the museum.  We tried to get a tour of Queens College but it was closed for visitors due to a private event.  We did have a look around Gonville and Caius College.  It gave me memories of reading a book called Porthouse Blues.  Here is Janice in one of the courtyards.

  It was starting to rain so we dived into the Whipple Museum of Science History. 

I was only enticed in on the promise that I could have a Waspberry Whipple ice cream!  Needless to say I was disappointed!

Whilst we were in we could hear the drumming of the rain on the roof, so we stayed inside until it stopped.  The museum was especially useful in that it proved to us that we knew very little or nothing about most areas of science.

Here is Janice making a new friend!  Don't ask what she is doing with her right hand!  Probably just checking the anatomical correctness of the model??  If this was a caption competition my entry would be, "When I squeeze please cough".

The weather was good when we came out and we managed a little shopping and coffee and cake before our return cycle back to the van.

This leg of our journey is now coming to an end.  We have a couple of visits to do on our route back up north.  Both are in the vicinity of Birmingham.  So with that in mind we are going to give the city a chance to impress us.  

By the way, today is. Quite a momentous day.....as it is the first day of Janice's retirement as it is the day she would have gone back to work if she had not retired.  Hooray!  Sorry for those of you who are still working.  We do feel a little guilty for being able to do the things we aim to do....but only a little.