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Another excellent walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club, Carolin led 13 of us on a circular 15mile jaunt through the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside, past splendid 16th century houses and brand new mansions! A little bit hilly for Cambridge folk but on such a gorgeous warm spring day delightful.
Here are the photo’s and route on Everytrail:-
Other photos may be found over at Sally’s place or even John’s site
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Today the Cambridge Rambling Club’s A team were having an away weekend, Neither Sally or I fancied a 10mile walk with the B team – mainly because of the agonising long lunchbreaks 🙂
So we made a quick ramble to Ely on the Fen Rivers Way our walk of the day! It was 16 miles which we comfortably did in 5 hours at a moving pace of 3.5mph. Twas a gorgeous day with spring not to far away now – we didn’t even get our boots muddy!
Due to it been Mothering Sunday, Sally was treated to tea & scones at The Peacock in Ely, we avoided the queues by having ours outside 🙂 The scones were almost as good as The Orchard at Grantchester (slightly less fruity I thought)
The route is much improved now with only a couple of stiles the rest been replaced with the metal kissing gates. I can really recommend it for anyone who is wanting a nice easy day out.
Oh and we now have an additional 1.7miles tagged onto the end of the walk – from Cambridge Rail station to my new abode.
Here is the Everytrail:-
In the big clear out prior to my move. The guy from Willingham Auctions got quite excited about taking this away:-
As you can see my vintage Davidsons Hexagonal Postcard Stand made £240 & what did I pay it for it? The answer is a big zero, I found it discarded with a load of rubbish in a skip 20 years ago!
It will be interesting to see what all the other stuff fetches next month 🙂 My suspicion is probably, at best, less than 50% what I paid for it!
