On Sunday we performed only a “short shop” for reasons that I said I would explain later. Here is the explanation: we are going out of town for a few days, leaving today and returning on Friday. Our destination is the ancient university city of Cambridge.

Aboard the 205

Although our train leaves just before 10 am, we left home at 7:50 as it’s better to wait at the station than cut it fine and risk delays en route.

Liverpool Street Station

A 205 bus delivered us safely to Liverpool Street Station. Here I am trying to photograph the station while crossing the road on a busy pedestrian crossing.

Camden Food Co

We had breakfast at Camden Food Co. What did we have? Guess!

Coffee and croissants

Yes, we had our traditional breakfast of coffee and croissants.

Pigeon looking for breakfast too

A pigeon came in and scouted around for crumbs.

Boarding the train

Still with plenty of time in hand, we went to board our train.

Aboard the train

We easily found seats at a table though the rack turned out to be too narrow for our cases. We had to put these under the table, robbing us of leg room, The lack of adequate space for luggage is increasingly a fault of modern train design and something that mystified me. Do they think passengers have no luggage?

A view from the train

The countryside streams past the window. (And Tigger’s hand in reflection.)

Cambridge Station

Just over an hour after departure, we arrived at Cambridge. We walked to the hotel expecting to have to wait until 2 pm to check in. However, they already had a room prepared and we went straight up.

In the room

It wasn’t long before we had the nice tidy room cluttered as we like it. We made tea and relaxed. At some point, we will go forth and look for lunch. More anon.