Cambridgeshire……..my word

Just back from a wedding near Duxford.

Dull isn’t it? 😘
I can see why incest and heroin are so popular round there, apart from the IWM there’s cock-all else to do.

And what’s with all the roundabouts? I assume it’s to keep the locals awake whilst driving along the endless, identical roads.

Happy new year everyone!

You should have gone to the air museum – definitely not dull. Well, providing you like airplanes and tanks…. 😆

I do!
Next time.
If there is one. 🙃

You live in Burnley, where “in bread” doesn’t mean a sandwich.

It was almost like Todmorden, where a virgin is defined as someone who can run faster than her brother.

Nice meal at The Plough though.
And nice locals. Lovely family.

If you think south Cambridgeshire is bad then you should head into the fens

Had a lovely relaxing boating holiday there a few years ago. Would recommend it to anyone.

Any roundabouts?

To be fair, have enjoyed a few holidays on the Norfolk Broads when much younger.
Think Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, but at much lower speeds.

Bloody hell RS… Only around 8 hours to go and you come in with a late entry for post of the year!

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So what were you expecting? 2000m hills, Sydney Opera House etc etc?

Gahamt is on the money there…. Duxford area is the posh bit. I was raised there, went to school.. when people say are you from Cambridge I say ‘no near there. About 20 miles and 200 years back in time’.

Of my year at school 3 of a hundred went to university that I know of, more people with sex offences

So what were you expecting? 2000m hills, Sydney Opera House etc etc?

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?

It’s not that the university is really full of the finest minds, it’s just that the local competition isn’t up to much…..

We were expecting Cambridge itself to be quite pleasant.

We ended up in a pub along the river where people had dumped bags of dogshit in the toilets, needles on the floor outside and a clientele consisting of coked up hoorays. 🙃

Ok, so not Cambridgeshire, but Cambridge.

Cambridge itself is lovely. But dead between Christmas and New Year

Most villages in Cambridgeshire are beautiful with nice people

Cambridge itself is also a lovely city

*shrug*

Makes a nice change from the hustle and bustle of Herts

It’s the only bit we can remember. 🙂

As said, The Plough in Duxford was very friendly and the wedding was at Sheene Mill, which was lovely.

The wedding breakfast was at the miniature railway, next to Chicksands. Bedfordshire, I believe. We saw a small hill on the drive there, which was exciting.

So one pub in Cambridge. Hardly an extensive sample.

The centre of Cambridge was hammered (not an issue), full of litter, lots of rough sleepers and random piss artists. A lot of evidence of heroin use.

The roadside hedges around Duxford and Huntingdon were strewn with rubbish.

Honestly, nowhere is perfect, but what a disappointment.

If you ever fancy wandering back – Fitzbillies, Gelato Jack’s and Knoops hot chocolate shop.

Will do!

Ok, so not Cambridgeshire, but Cambridge.

Where do you suppose Cambridge is, Luxembourg?

Love this, a whole County of a review based on one pub with evidence of junkies in the Garden. From a Burnley resident 😀

Where do you suppose Cambridge is, Luxembourg?

Massachusetts I thought?

Kryton57
Full Member
Love this, a whole County of a review based on one pub with evidence of junkies in the Garden. From a Burnley resident 😀

Yes, the irony is indeed strong, 😀
But it’s still cleaner round here.
And look, hills!
I know where I’d rather live.
Even I’m surprised by that….

Honestly, I’ve never been more disappointed by anywhere.
Well, maybe Chester.

Show me a city centre that doesn’t have a rough pub, drug or Homeless problem unfortunately. Not sure what you mean about the roundabouts,there doesn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary to me. You should try Milton Keynes!
And we have hills, you can climb a 1000 feet if you take in the whole county.

Honestly, the centre felt like Manchester in the bad old days. Or as we call it round here, Leeds. 😀

The fens… the fens…

A strange place indeed. But lovely big skies.

A thing I’ve noticed about the fens is the treachery of the roads, can anyone local elucidate? They stretch on forever in a lovely straight line, and being flat as a pancake, offer the enthusiastic driver an uninterrupted view ahead. However, the camber on some can suddenly change almost throwing one off the road into a dyke.

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The fens… the fens…

A strange place indeed. But lovely big skies.

A thing I’ve noticed about the fens is the treachery of the roads, can anyone local elucidate? They stretch on forever in a lovely straight line, and being flat as a pancake, offer the enthusiastic driver an uninterrupted view ahead. However, the camber on some can suddenly change almost throwing one off the road into a dyke.

Was brought up on the edge of the Fens, the roads subside so anything can throw you off the road at any sort of speed, and if that doesn’t get you they just pop a 90° bend in…

High Six to any Fen Sloggers!

I think is due to the drains but is bloody stupid plus some of the drain roads will be on an amazing angle towards the drain too, definitely an interesting place to learn to drive, had a number of interesting times in cars over the years round there.
High 6 back mtcd

There’s not an upright telegraph pole in the fens, they are all at jaunty angles where the soil shrinks around them. Road building-as far as it goes in the fens, must be a nightmare, like trying to tarmac a jelly I should imagine. Makes for a thrilling roller coaster ride though. High six, saw what you did there!

I commute across the fens. At this time a year there’s at least a car a week in a field after losing control on muddy of camber and choppy roads. In a field because for some reason hedgerows are not used by farmers in the fens.

Outside of South Cambridgeshire and Ely District it’s got one highest deprivation rates in the UK. Those Fenland towns supporting farming and food processing with very low wages and insecure jobs are more like ex pit towns.
Fortunately I live in Ely which is a great small town and has direct train links to the Peak District and other outdoorsy places.

The best thing about Cambs is its nearness to Rutland and Leics. From a cyclist perspective (road not MTB), they are FANTASTIC for roadying.

The Fen bits are plain wierd and thank God ‘we’ have got the ‘shittiest city in Christendom’ crown back (Peterborough – ugggh) after being usurped last year by the horror that is Aylesbury. I say ‘we’, obv not me. I’m an interloper but that post industrial gem is our nearest local City.

Camped near Ely over the Aug Bank Holiday. Lovely place, but the couple of training rides I did out from there on the road were a little less exciting than riding on the turbo 😉

In find hard to imagine not enjoying the sites of St John’s street or punting along the backs

But the country side around it isn’t great. I’d forgive it being flat if it wasn’t in covered soft mud most of the year

Absolute belter of a cathedral in Ely. Fred Dibnah once did a telly bit about it, probably on Youtube.

definitely an interesting place to learn to drive

I took my driving test in Spalding one snowy February day in 1988. Hillstarts?

Agree about deprivation. Pre-lockdown I dealt with housing in the Spalding/Boston areas, 30 years after I left the area. Was interesting chatting to landlords and tenants.

Honestly, the centre felt like Manchester in the bad old days.

Before the IRA caused millions of pounds worth of improvements.

My fun sponge of a sister in law and her family live in a village in Cambridgeshire so for that reason I try and avoid the place entirely on a ‘better safe than sorry’ basis.