12/4/18 – 16/12/18
Our drive to Cambridge, and England again throws us its best weather. Fog and rain this time and the fog lasted all day making driving hazardous. Cambridge was our last two nights with Ivana and Tony, as they continue to the lakes region then Ireland etc. We went punting around the “backs” region, showing us the bridges and the back of the universities. A town with many parks and again canals.
Cambridge is famous for its Kings college, but this is only one of many university campus’s .
An outlying village from Cambridge was Hemingsford Grey. A patient had told me to visit here and indeed it was worth a drive through. Thatched houses and again a canal system running through the back of the village.
The next three days we moved to Oxford another university town. Dan and Tina joined us in our little apartment. In Oxford we began with a walking tour of both the city and university. There is great rivalry between the two uni towns and some people think there is only one campus there, but Oxford has 38 spread around the town. All owned & runby the one entity.
Visited Tuffs Tavern , where in 1963 Bob Hawke whilst at Oxford University entered the Guiness book of records after downing a Yard of Ale in 11 seconds.. The record still stands today. Onya Bob
The following day was spent at Blenheim Palace, the birth place of Winston Churchill.
The room at Blenheim Palace that Winston Churchill was born in, in 1874, Churchill came from a very wealthy family with great privilege.
