Our arrival at London City Airport and on the drive to Cambridge, didn't look so rosy though!
But soon we arrived and were surrounded once again in fantastic streets of Cambridge. This beautiful Art Nouveau shop front was just delightful and such a surprise. It seems so Parisian
and who in their right mind can't love bunting!!!! The streets were adorned with it.
The market at Cambridge is pretty cool but look at those clouds! wow!
Bicycles are of course the "theme" of Cambridge
But it's the buildings I love the very best
How can you not!
Brilliant fire escape from On the Corn Exchange building.
Someone recently said that I had made up the word haberdashery and I explained that it was real and once they would have had one of these shops in every town. I love this one, love the fabrics
All those features, carvings and creatures
Secret passageways
Intriguing shops
and details everywhere, even on the down spouts
You literally can't turn a corner without seeing something amazing in Cambridge
More streets and more buntings
Just fab! and I resisted the urge to "press" the bell!
Sometimes there is no one about
So many sentinels around the city
Breath taking doorways
Fabulous churches
and how about this pair of door scrapers
Residence in the city...yes thank you! Fab shadows!
Even the graffiti is refined
Glorious parks that take me right back to childhood holidays in England and how different it was to the Isle of Man. It felt foreign to me
That really is an unfortunate name
twilight alley shot
and even the sense of humor to plant this in a side street....and wait for someone to notice it. This is definitely one for closer inspection. It was exquisitely made
Look at the drain pipe (down spout) and the building had dozens of them
Love this doorway to an alleyway between the buildings
Bunting, turret and boy!
The modern stuff is present but not too over whelming
I absolutely loved this. The numbering for the rooms and then the fantastic names, not to mention the really well executed lettering!!!
The streets do tell a thousand stories and have as many thousands walk along them over the years, if only they could talk
This was a quiet street and path to the church door
Another bit of Art Nouveau
This is on the door inside Kings College chapel. They have obviously had problems with people not doing that action! But what is written underneath the stuck on label?
Just brilliant, why 2?
I took this picture, as this church was full of carvings on the pews.
Literally all over them
Wonderful staircase in the worlds oldest book shop, well something like that. Lets just say really old, just to cover me
Window boxes soften everything and these really were beautiful
I just kept thinking of all the craftsmen that have worked here
It really must have been quite the building site
but look at what they made. This is Kings College Chapel from the outside
The walk down the side path to the river from the Chapel
and people punting. I did toy with the idea.....but we didn't do it.
The flowers along the path were lovely, the river was crammed with people, yet it seem serene
and of course the favorite place, Kings College Chapel and all the glory of the place
again huge amount of detail here
Outside the sky was signalling rain
Now that's a door way arch!
I saw this doorway and it made me smile, it is actually quite small and in the gate of an archway but you can see many people have opened this doorway in the gate. The worn wood is amazing
How about this for a doorway and door. Not forgetting the hinges and the flint work!
So many Churches in such a small space
Even the streets are interesting when it rains and they have decorative features
Fitzwilliam College. I loved the geraniums in the boxes, regimented and jolly
Look at the flag stones, I'm sure they dip where people have walked! I love passageways and the popping out into the light beyond
What a building and a place to study!!! This is also what we saw on the other side of the walk through
Secret gardens
and happy bunting
This is a window in Fitzwilliam College and the glass is beautiful. The effect inside must be lovely.
I liked this doorway and the way the stone is on the right. I'm going to say this is a join and these were not built at the same time!
I love this handle and it looks like someone has just gone through the door, was it Harry Potter!!! Everything about the place screams of stories and centuries of them. History in North America, from when white settelers went there, is quite short. Even Canada is only 152 years....but all the history in Cambridge is so startiling to me, now that I live with a different perpective. Just fasinating!
I honestly don't know what I'll take pictures of next time....
Because I think that I have taken all there is of Cambridge but maybe I will just sit and people watch. This row of buildings is brilliant and shows so many time periods of English History
But really the small things always pull my eye and this final door pull, beautiful
Good old Cambridge, see you next time!!!
You only had one photo with your boys in it and I thought it was really neat!! Perhaps they were your sneakers in another photo. I really enjoyed Cambridge. What a fabulous collection of buildings!! Miss you! Love, Linda
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