We arrive at the third stop on our UK tour, tiny Cherry Hinton, on Thursday January 12th. As is becoming our custom, arrival day is a nicely relaxed affair, as we get ourselves set up and settle into the evening.
There is a pub an easy walk from the site and, once we’re all organised we head to the Robin Hood greenking.co.uk . It’s not a bad pub, more modern than some of the ones we’ve been to, but it’s not really our thing so we just have a couple of drinks and head back to site.
Cherry Hinton to Cambridge
Just opposite the Robin Hood is the bus stop for services to Cambridge. Neither of us have visited the city before, and are looking forward to a couple of hours mooching about the famous university city. The bus ride seems to take an age! Just when we think we’ve reach the centre we notice that most of the passengers have stayed on the bus, and decide to follow suit. It’s just as well we did as the remaining journey is at least another twenty minutes, and I’m not sure we’d ever have got there on foot!
As you’d expect, Cambridge is lovely. The whole city is bustling with shoppers, students, and bikes, LOTS of bikes! It’s a beautiful day and everyone seems to have a smile on their faces as they go about their business. After a nice stroll around to get our bearings we stop for coffee and croissants outside #benetscafecambridge . After coffee we carry on our tour of the city, we stop to watch the boats punting up and down the Cam. We were asked a couple of times, if we wanted a river trip, but the weather was a bit windy, and my sea legs aren’t the best on small boats, so we politely declined!
Time For Thai!
There’s not much else, but there are two pubs in tiny Cherry Hinton, the Robin Hood, as already mentioned, and www.theredlioncherryhinton.co.uk . This is much more our kind of place, traditional, full of locals, still in easy walking distance, and the regular watering hole of an enormous, young St Bernard dog who goes by the name of Mavis! Since losing our Marley, A change is going to come……. , we live our dog loving lives through other peoples pooches, and Mavis is a doozy, trust me if one of these sits on your feet you ain’t moving ’til she does!
We took a liking to The Red Lion, and spent so long enjoying the relaxed ambience, we realised it was dinner time and we were hungry! Turns out that two nights a week their chef does a Thai menu, and we happen to be there on the right night. Two Pad Thai, and a couple more drinks later and the place is filling up for the evening, so we take our leave and head home.
Cherry Hinton is a tiny village, and there isn’t much more that a couple of pubs and a small supermarket, but it has great transport links to Cambridge and the surrounding areas and, for a short stop on our UK tour, it had everything we needed.