We arrived in Cambridge after a fairly uneventful journey on Tues. 22nd and found - joy of joys! a water point, somewhere to empty the toilet cassette and a skip for the rubbish so all became well with our world again. We moored at Jesus Lock - which looked lovely but was quite a distance from Robert and Michelles house which is where we wanted to be.
We had a friendly visit from the river baliff who said that unofficially we could move down to Midsummer Common as this time of year things were fairly fluid as far as moorings went - he also warned us that we were close to two hostels who kicked out the residents during the day so we could expect daytime drinkers sitting alongside the boat!!!
On the bright side we have found Frank - who is going to repair the bikes and says they are not in that bad a condition PLUS we had a visit from some nice people from the Census who gave us forms to complete so we are going to be included in the census on Sunday and will not be non-people as we were worried about!
On Wed. we moved down to Midsummer Common - this is where we had hoped to be in the first place but the signs saying Permit Holders Only had put us off!
We were right opposite all the boat houses for the Cambridge rowing clubs and constantly had boats being rowed past - the eights go at a tremendous pace and rocked our boat considerably - for some reason I didn't take any pictures! I was sure I had but there you go!
Bikes were mended and we enjoyed cycling around getting groceries etc and looking like we really belonged in Cambridge!
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