Day 5 was another lovely day, with quite a few highlights. Firstly, the day started with a dog walk and a few chores, as usual, but then my Wife had a new company car delivered… a beautiful BMW 5-Series. That freed us up to crack on with what we’d originally planned for the day, namely a trip to Cambridge.
We drove down, parked up and took a wander in to the city centre, looking for somewhere to have lunch and admiring the beutiful architecture. The first thing of note we came across was the Corpus Clock, which is an amazing work of art that also has a practical purpose of telling the time.
It has a lot of interesting facts that I won’t bore you with here, but if you click the link to the Wikipedia page above it’ll tell you everything you need to know and is worth a read if you like engineering and physics.
It was unveiled by Stephen Hawking in 2008.
So, off to lunch! We came across a pub called The Eagle, which had an RAF bar. Having spent close to 10-years in the RAF myself I couldn’t resist, plus they had a sign promoting ‘the best fish and chips in town’, so we had to give it a try.
The RAF bar itself is amazing and full of memorabilia from over the years, including some of the Memphis Belle which was based 11-miles south of Cambridge at RAF Bassingbourn. I loved the film, so seeing some of the photos of the original and film crew was fansastic, as was this drawing…
The rest of the bar is like a museum to the RAF and has actual names and artwork from WW2 on the ceiling, burnt with lighters or one drawn in lipstick…
But the most important things is… how was the fish and chips?! Well, I’d suggest that they’re not just the best fish and chips in town, but perhaps the best I’ve had anywhere in the UK!
There was fish and chips, obviously, but also bread and butter, peas, tartare sauce, fish goujons and a small jug of ‘chip shop’ curry sauce.
AMAZING!
Then on the way out this beautiful Royal Enfield was parked outside…
We then walked round and explored some of the other streets and shops, making a detour to see the ‘mathematical bridge‘, which is a very clever feat of engineering:
We also saw this entrance at Christ’s College…
And this street had a fantastic set of chimneys that I just had toi pake a photo of…
Then it was home again for a rest!
The Ten Thousand Day Project 