Cambridgeshire – Brampton

After Norfolk we moved on to the Willows Caravan site in Brampton, close to Huntingdon. We were  going to Houghton Mill Caravan club site, but this was cancelled at short notice due to waterlogged grounds. Thankfully David and Carol helped us find another site near them, very quickly. As you can see from the photo it wasn’t busy. It did have very warm facilities with lots of hot water for showers and washing up.

The River Great Ouse – close to the caravan site

Visit to Cambridge on the guided bus route.

David, a bloke I don’t recognise, Carol and Sue

Cambridge scene

  

Boat station by Magdalen Bridge.

 

Kettles Yard - Between 1958 and 1973 this was was the home of Jim and Helen Ede. In the 1920s and 30s Jim had been a curator at the Tate Gallery in London. Thanks to his friendships with artists he gathered a remarkable collection, including paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, David Jones and Joan Miro, as well as sculptures by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

                                            Inside the house

  

Welcome break on a geocaching trip.

By the river

Sue and I had another visit to Cambridge on the guided bus route. We sat in the usual OAP seats, top deck at the front, to get the best views over the Cambridgeshire countryside. Sue chose to do retail therapy in Cambridge while I went for a walk to find some geocaches and to take a few more photos. En route I visited the  The Sedgewick Museum of Earth Sciences. It’s full of old fossils (no jokes, thank you) some of them very impressive.

Deinotherium giganteum, found locally, was one of the largest land animals. It is related to the present day elephant.

Large Ammonoid

 

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Mathematical Bridge

Trinity College

 

Sunday lunch at the Axe and Compass

We spent six days altogether in Brampton and were well looked after by David and Carol, thank you.

Oldie Photo

Der Schornsteinfeger-The Chimney Sweep. There are still chimney sweeps today and they wear the traditional attire of their profession. Supposedly, if you shake hands with a chimney sweeper, it will bring you good luck. He was sweeping our chimney in Dortmund.