We were aiming for fun and practicality as we started our weekend in Cambridge. We thought the first thing we would do would be to go punting on the river and then head on to run some errands. So we packed up our stuff for the day and headed to the river, and this is what we found:
The night before it has rained majorly a little north of us (including flooding and power outages--it was the remnant of Hurricane Bertha heading our way). And that caused the usually placid River Cam to have white water, and punting was called off for the day (as least for self-hire punts).
So we headed on along our way. We headed to the ASDA (which is what Walmart is called here). It's 2 1/2 miles away. But it was a beautiful day, and it took us to some parts of Cambridge we hadn't seen before--including some shopping areas we didn't know about.
Along the way, we passed by Jesus' Pieces (which is some lovely parkland--several pieces of land--all owned by Jesus College).
The second picture is an amazing bowling green, where people come to do lawn bowling. And we walked through a number of regular Cambridge neighborhoods, without the towering spires of the University buildings.
The streets are pretty narrow, and cars need to take turns getting past the parked cars. A lot of housing goes right to the sidewalk, and their outdoor space is behind--the back garden.
We worked our way to the ASDA:
It has a lot wider selection than a regular grocery store--more like our Walmarts. We were able to find a number of things there that we had been needing--and some good deals. So we bought our stuff, and packed it all neatly into our rolling backpack and a couple of other bags, and headed on our way back.
We broke the trip back home up with a picnic in one of the parks. It was a good time to learn a little more about our city.
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