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The day was started with Brunch comprising a Cooked English beakfast all prepared by the Scotney Chefs and I can highly recommend the meal. After a little tennis watching John and Boz had an afternoon all planned for us visiting the famed Cambridge Colleges before dinner around 7.
John gave us running commentaries on the quality of the pubs that we passed and applied his rating to each. I wonder if he could start a business of recommending pubs, like those that have real ales, highly recommended for a meal but no real ale, great location but food average with real ale.
After parking the car we were led to the famous postcard shot of Kings College and found that we could not gain access as there were exams on, I think that they were more upset than we were. We finally saw a squirel running across the grass and up a tree, Teresa spent some time photographing a Dandelion seed head and also some large tree fungus.
We walked back to the river and past the hawkers selling punt rides, and in to The Anchor for a pint and a nibble. The Anchor has a claim to fame with a band that played there that had a drummer called Syd (the beat) Barrett and another young Barrett liked the drummers first name and used it as his own.
After The Anchor we wandered around Cambridge, past all the colleges that were all locked up, bikes parked all against buildings and fences and cyclists on all the streets.
As exams were on and being unable to view the insides the decision was made to have dinner early at Browns with rather spacious atmosphere and great service. The meal was really nice and as John was driving I informed him that the wine, an Italian Pinot Noir, was really really nice.
For dessert the Dark Chocolate Brownie was really rich, with Teresa helping me eat it all although Owen ate one all by himself, and Jonhns Brulee was ginormous.
The evening was spent resting and a reasonable early night at 11pm.
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Joanne and Derek Don't know about your luggage being overweight - with all the food you are writing about and consuming I would be worried about fitting into your bike gear.