The Cambridge Primark opens tomorrow in Burleigh Street (the revamped John Lewis building ). To promote the opening of Primark they used today ten walking billboards as part of a targeted marketing campaign from Look Media UK. I thought it was highly effective and looked rather cool. From Primark in Cambridge Here is a little slideshow:- Primark is the first major (Over 50,000 sq ft) new store in Cambridge since the opening of the Grafton Centre. There website for a job is here Read Full Story

Yesterdays walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club was a good test for our foul weather gear, mine failed abysmally We 11 started from St Mary’s Church car park at Rougham, in very wet and windy conditions, so it was heads down for the first 9 miles to Bradfield St Clare and a spot of lunch in the shelter of the church porch, followed by a drink at the Fox & Hounds in Bradfield St. George. The afternoon cleared up a little so we started to dry out. From Rougham Walk Very di... Read Full Story

Here is Emily’s essay that has been causing her a bit of stress, I will leave the reader to guess what it is on:-) Read Full Story

Geoff having Swedish Massage What better after an invigorating walk than a relaxing Swedish Massage in the comfort of your own home, here in Cambridge, so many thanks to Sally for mine tonight. If you want to book a Swedish or Indian Head Massage then head over to Sally’s webpage and give her a call – she is in Cambridge most weekends. Read Full Story

Whilst on our walk today we came across this farm with the name The Pightle, Larry and I were fascinated by the origin of the name so out came the iPhone and a quick search on wiktionary revealed:- “Odd-shaped fields now caused problems which had not been encountered in the days before mechanization. Thus, over several years, fields were reorganized to be acceptably rectangular.This was cleverly and thoughtfully arranged but,inevitably, there were remnants, leftovers,off-cuts or tailin... Read Full Story

Today’s travel blog is a ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club. We did  a 14mile figure of 8 centered in Newport, Essex. It was an warm autumn day, exactly 3 years since I met Sally on the fateful Nar Valley walk. The colours on the trees were truly splendid, especially when the sun came out and even the overcast skies gave a feeling of the dark winter nights which are about to descend on us. Much talk about log fires and stoves. I was very surprised to hear Vera’s amazing news ... Read Full Story

Blimey Cambridge is the 8th sexiest place in the UK, according to LoveHoney, spending over 3 times as much as the average UK city. Amusingly Cambridge is really, really hot on Sexy Shoes and Boots Now I know why Em wanted all those shoes with 6″ heels! Read Full Story

Celebrity blogger, Murray Newlands was in Cambridge tonight, I missed him at The Twig (an offshoot of my friend, Lloyd Davis Tuttle group) meetup which was in The Vine not The Snug as advertised   I finally managed to get a drink with him in my local The Globe We discussed a wide range of topics particularly my VanSpot idea and also re-categorising some of my posts into a category “Travel-Blogging”. Murray is well into social media having over 30,000 followers on Twitter plus d... Read Full Story

I’m surprised that more fuss is not been made over the privacy implications of the new Picasa3 face recognition software. It’s certainly superior to the Apple iPhoto offering. The most worrying aspect is that it allows you, well almost insists, that you link the photos to the persons email address. I wonder if Google are then taking the photo data and storing on there own servers?. The image above is a collage of the 585 face images of me it has found on my main computer. Interes... Read Full Story

Today was the annual end of season trip of the Jesus Green Pool regulars to Dunwich for a dip in the sea followed by fish & chips and a walk along the shingle beach towards Sizewell. The event was well attended by 16 regulars who all had a dip in the North Sea, some for the best part of half an hour, I only managed a few minutes before my fingers started turning white, remarkably one of the ladies who swam for 30mins still had pink fingers!. The sun peeped out occasionally so a much bette... Read Full Story