4/6/92:
Lynne took a 'sick' day to tour Cambridge with us but the sun refused to shine. Parked in a car park (ramp to us), walked to a main thoroughfare. Very old, interesting round Norman church on the corner. Lynne had been in it but it was closed this time.
Trudged thru Christ Church College, Queen's College and St. James College, where Phyllis' father had been a professor before going into foreign service. Chilled and in need for 'facilities', we went into large department store that covered half a block. Had lunch at the restaurant in this store. I had beef tomato and cheese bake over pasta bows, green salad, coffee and toffee bar.
Took a tour bus around Cambridge to the American Memorial and Cemetery, very impressive. Back near our car park, disembarked, toured St. James Chapel with stark adjoining "Ladies' Chapel". Down the street to the Cam (no punters in the rain) found we were one bridge up from the Bridge of Sighs so got a fair shot of it. Headed home.
On the way up to Ramsey with Doug when we arrived, I saw signs for a town called Pidley. I told him my Grandmother Hadley and my dad both often remarked that something "wasn't worth Pidley". As we again passed a sign for it at a roundabout, Lynne said she'd take me up there and I could get a better picture. She did, I did and also of the pub and few cottages that constitutes the hamlet. It is near Ramsey so we entered the town from the NE, saw the old church and the abbey ruins. The weather was the least cooperative since we had arrived but sights and sounds never to be forgotten - nor the pair of pheasants beside the hedgerow on our return trip.
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