Things we like about Cambridge 2
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English butter
Marks&Spencers Strawberry milk
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Sky that changes moment to moment (provided one is looking out from somewhere warm and dry! In this case our kitchen window)
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Monday 30 April
After a few days of miserable weather, we finally got
to have a lovely few hour of sunshine yesterday afternoon and this morning.It's 4pm now and it's already clouded over and chilly again. Sigh...
The boys and I explored one of the nearby colleges this morning - there's always surprises inside: secret gardens and ponds and then the buildings full of student rooms and seminar rooms and cafes, all hidden and higgedly piggedly. We finished writing postcards too and will find a postbox soon to send them off. I attended a meeting with other families and Clare Hall about how to include families more. The boys managed to stay quiet for 40 minutes and then we had to cut loose.
Imperial War Museum
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Spitfire |
Yesterday was a miserable wet day so we hopped
on a bus and headed out to the Imperial War Musuem (about 20 mins away out in the countryside).
It is housed in 7 hangers (a couple of them enormous)
at the Duxford airfield. It was very cool - Brendon and Finn
listened in on a tour about the Battle of Britian, which had its
own hangar. The building was impressive enough - a huge wooden structure (see below) built back in 1917-18. Add to that Hurricanes and Spitfires and an original Messerschitt that crashlanded into an English field, and you get the picture.
There's also an American Air Museum (26,000 US airforce personnel lost their lives in Europe) that is chock full of other amazing aircraft, and in the main hanger, along with masses of interactive stuff for kids there is a Concorde - yep, a real one that you can walk inside. I've always thought the Concorde was supercool and it was great to see the rows of seats (28 passengers only!) and all the red carpet perks flying supersonic entitled you to.
Amazing aircraft and great interactive displays about how flying works but also rather chilling to think how much death and destruction was caused by these machines.
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Attention!! In the American Air Museum |
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Hangar housing the Battle of Britian exhibition |