Grantchester better be in those trees...I've had enough!
The five mile walk to Grantchester and back from Cambridge is one of those walks I'd always wanted to do, and as I was lucky enough to visit in the late spring when the meadows and hedgerows are wearing their new best clothes I couldn't resist it, despite the sultry heatwave and disappointing (photographically speaking) cloudless skies.
Footsore and sun-boiled brains - too vain to wear a hat - I'd had enough by this stage, but I spotted this nice old five bar gate away from the path so paid it a visit for a bit of foreground interest. (The riverside path is on the extreme left where there are a few walkers).
To add to my daftness, I walked straight through the famous orchard tea-garden to have my warm bottled water and sweaty cornish pasty I'd been carrying since Cambridge in the shade of the churchyard.
I was simply too cooked and feeling rather disorientated to start having to queue, make decisions and deal with the cool elegant patrones of this famous tea room in an orchard.
Grantchester better be in those trees...I've had enough!
The five mile walk to Grantchester and back from Cambridge is one of those walks I'd always wanted to do, and as I was lucky enough to visit in the late spring when the meadows and hedgerows are wearing their new best clothes I couldn't resist it, despite the sultry heatwave and disappointing (photographically speaking) cloudless skies.
Footsore and sun-boiled brains - too vain to wear a hat - I'd had enough by this stage, but I spotted this nice old five bar gate away from the path so paid it a visit for a bit of foreground interest. (The riverside path is on the extreme left where there are a few walkers).
To add to my daftness, I walked straight through the famous orchard tea-garden to have my warm bottled water and sweaty cornish pasty I'd been carrying since Cambridge in the shade of the churchyard.
I was simply too cooked and feeling rather disorientated to start having to queue, make decisions and deal with the cool elegant patrones of this famous tea room in an orchard.