Friday, June 25, 2010

Cambridge




After leving Cambridge we went back to Ely and were delighted to be joined by 7 Newbalders but the weather was unfortunately unkind to us. Nevertheless I think everyone enjoyed themselves and we are now up to £5000.00 towards our goal for repairing the St Nicholas Church North Newbald stonework. We have enjoyed our pilgrimage by boat and meeting such a a lot of fascinating people.

Cambridge


We finally arrived in Cambrige which was the end of our pilgrimage by boat. We met the Reverend Richard Lloyd Morgan who is the dean of St John's College in Cambridge, who showed us around the famous chapel, where the special Christmas concert is broadcast from every year. We met relatives and friends from London and Cambridge who all came on the boat and contributed to our cause. We toured Cambridge on an open top bus and saw all the magnificent colleges and other sites of interest. We became involved in a unique end of year activity on the water whereby rowing crews from all the colleges competed on the river and each boat crew had to touch the one in front in order for the one in front to be eliminated. The river was chaos but great fun was had by participants and spectators alike. We were delighted to once again have a visit from our vicar Mike Bushby and his neighbour Lynne.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

River Great Ouse


Ely Bridge with a chapel on it. Jones Boatyard in St Ives.
We bought the boat from here originally.