I took a very quick trip to Cambridge this weekend in order to drum up a little more business for my baroque dance enterprise. There is a fantastic chamber group (recorder, harpsichord, double bass, and drums) that mixes baroque music and jazz, and I had a meeting with the recorder player to discuss new projects. I arrived Saturday night, and most of Sunday was spent in blissful project-dreaming nerdiness.
On Monday, however, the recorder player hit the town with me. First stop, scones with clotted cream. Second stop, punting on the river (see pictures above). The bucolic views of the university are best from this vantage point, especially given that most of the colleges now don't allow tourists to walk through their campus. And by bucolic, I mean that they have rare breed cows on one of the pastures in order to tend to the grass. After that, delicious ramen noodles (ok, so everything wasn't totally English), cake at tea-time, and Marks and Spencers. I high-tailed it home early Tuesday morning.
I can't believe that I waited so long to go to England. I guess it just didn't seem exotic enough.
The pictures are a little fuzzy because I took them with the cell phone... Jeremy had our camera in Belgium.
4 comments:
so, what does clotted cream taste like? I have read it in books- it doesn't sound particularly appetizing! It surely seems like you have been to England! How did your nerdiness end up?still those were pretty pictures.
Clotted cream (I agree the name is somewhat unappetizing) is deeeelicious. It's just incredibly thick cream-- like the consistency of whipped cream, but not sweet. Jeremy actually went to Cambridge last year (earlier this year), but I didn't go then.
We are working on a show together, a ballet-pantomime, for 2011 as well as a smaller show using Handel's music for fall 2010.
Your picture are beautiful. Not a cloud in the sky - how do you manage that?
I think there may have been clouds, but the cell phone camera is not good enough to capture them!
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