Cambridge

After another early morning jog we managed to leave at 9am. We had some issues with our sat nav in that it was giving us the right directions but the arrows were in the wrong direction. We made an early directional mistake, but with motorways it is easy to redirect. Eight miles later we were back on the right road. It's quite a nice drive down the east coast and the familiar names put the UK in perspective. Hull, Barnsley, Sherwood Forrest and Nottingham all flew past. 

We arrived in Cambridge about noon and parked up at the local baths we were planning on visiting later in the day. Cambridge has to be the most beautiful city I have seen in the UK. It has a number of very large open parks in the middle of the city. There are a large number of colleges which make up Cambridge University all with their own courtyards and surrounding old buildings. The first one we stumbled into looked just like the Chariots of Fire courtyard race, but I suspect it wasn't. 

Later we came across two museums. One of Archaeology and the other of Anthropology. The first was our favourite with a real skeleton of a dinosaur. When you get a university museum it is more authentic and what you see and read is more what has happened rather than something they are trying to teach you. I loved the fossil of the largest known spider. Imagine waking to this one walking across your face. Apparently they are meat eaters.

We ended this day well, spending a couple of hours in the pool messing around and using the two hydoslides. The slides never get old no matter how fast they are.