[Travel] Day trip to Cambridge

[Is it PotG?]

Indeed, some lovely canals around there

 

[ofco8]

Be interested as to how you get on.

Thinking of doing that trip this summer.

 

[HitchinSeagull]

Thameslink making me 40 minutes late to work yesterday looks like 45 today I really think you shouldn't chance it, it's a shambles.

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[jonnyrovers]

Recommendation is to check if the train is actually running as I believe there were cancellations of these services when the new timetable came in.

Thameslink from St Pancras to Brighton yesterday took almost twice as long as Eurostar from Paris to St Pancras. Complete & utter shambles and a crappy end to an otherwise lovely weekend.

 

[Ernest]

All Brighton/Cambridge/VV cancelled so far today, can't even blame the unions for their incompetence now but still they get away with it

 

[Gazwag]

Punting on the Cam is jolly fun, they say

 

[Mr Banana]

There are some cracking breweries round there. Get pissed and then go round the botanical gardens. Or, if you stay more than a day, get hammered and go round the gardens on your hangover.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Best colleges to visit are King's, Trinity and St. John's. The grounds and buildings are stunning. Trouble is a) everyone else knows; b) they like to charge you separately. You might of course have forgotten to bring your Cambridge Alumnus card (CamCard) that allows free entrance and you have brought your young daughter who was so looking forward to it.....

Less popular colleges are Emmanuel Pembroke and Downing (fairly close together and make a good sample of the different types of college).

Punting is a must - I would recommend paying up and take one of the student led punts. Don't believe a word they say; it is all made up.

 

[maltaseagull]

You can rent a bike and kids bikes and easily cycle to Grantchester to the cafe, lovely trip and setting. You can also rent a punt and do it but slightly harder work (but wonfderful as well).

Don't go to Grantchester It's almost as dangrouse as Midsomer. Edit flipping auto correct.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Punting on the Cam is jolly fun, they say

It's a lot harder than it looks. If you are planning to do it, avoid hiring one of the punts from the site just opposite a riverside pub. I did that and had a large audience for my inept and prolonged efforts to get the damn thing facing the right way. I wished I'd hired one of the posh types to punt for us.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Be interested as to how you get on.

Thinking of doing that trip this summer.

As widely predicted on here, the Cambridge train was cancelled (anyone noticed how the railplanner app just doesnt even mention these cancellations - the timetabled journeys just don't even feature) so we went to Blackfriars and a tour round the Globe theatre on a 2-for-1 deal. Monsoon conditions after so we abandoned the planned Tower of London trip, had a pizza and came home to sunny Sussex by the sea. When (if) the numpty train company get their arses in gear, I'll try again. Thank you for suggestions, BTW.

 

[ofco8]

As widely predicted on here, the Cambridge train was cancelled (anyone noticed how the railplanner app just doesnt even mention these cancellations - the timetabled journeys just don't even feature) so we went to Blackfriars and a tour round the Globe theatre on a 2-for-1 deal. Monsoon conditions after so we abandoned the planned Tower of London trip, had a pizza and came home to sunny Sussex by the sea. When (if) the numpty train company get their arses in gear, I'll try again. Thank you for suggestions, BTW.

Right, will wait until (if they ever do) they sort the current poxy service out.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Right, will wait until (if they ever do) they sort the current poxy service out.

I don't think they ever will sort it out. Mrs Cottager has just started commuting to Redhill from Preston Park. Only one of her journeys since the timetable change has been on time and she had to stand all the way to Three Bridges. The incompetence of the railway company and complacency of the Government is astounding.

 

[hart's shirt]

Punting on the Cam is jolly fun, they say

Beagling on the downs, oh please do come they say...

 

[Gazwag]

It's a lot harder than it looks. If you are planning to do it, avoid hiring one of the punts from the site just opposite a riverside pub. I did that and had a large audience for my inept and prolonged efforts to get the damn thing facing the right way. I wished I'd hired one of the posh types to punt for us.

Beagling on the downs, oh please do come they say...

Ha, one of you got it

 

[Perfidious Albion]

“ so we went to Blackfriars and a tour round the Globe theatre on a 2-for-1 deal.”

Love The Globe , fabulous place, I saw a Shakespear play there as a groundling for £ 5 . I hope your daughter likes it .