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Sick
We had planned to drive to near Glastonbury in Somerset for a New Years Eve party today. Instead, I awoke ill and was unable to drive. Neither Nancy nor Andy was authorized to drive my rental car, so everyone decided to stay in Cambridge. With nursing care from the other three, I started feeling a little better in the evening and stayed up until shortly after midnight to welcome the new ...
Somewhere to stay before the flight
... pubs, before getting back on the M1 to find the Luton Travelodge, only about 10 minutes from the airport.
We've been out a few times in Luton and not been impressed so we tried Dunstable on the opposite side of the M1. Hmm. We won't bother again. It goes down on our list of places not to visit again and comes pretty high on that list, possibly being shaded by Harlow but not by much. Still, it was better than getting up at four o'clock for our Berlin flights.
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Visiting family on the way to the airport
... at Fusion with some of Julie's family which was pretty good and then went for a few pints in the Pen & Wig where there was a Blondie tribute band who were quite entertaining but not as much as the chap dancing who'd had a couple too many and ended up on his backside looking rather confused.
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Back to Cambridge
Another driving day, from the Leeds area to Cambridge via the A1 motorway, with a stop at Clumber Park near Nottingham. Again, I followed Brian, whose vehicle was needed to transport the rest of Kirsten and Andy's belongings back to their home. Dinner was sushi at J Restaurant after we ...
The long haul,
... the sites from Peter's ancestry. We found St Marys church where William Woods married Amey Brudenell in 1797 (the start of the Brudenell-Woods) but it was locked up. We then went to All Saints church where William's son was baptized. While we were there some folk turned up for a games afternoon and we found out that it was the wrong All Saints! We just had time to get back to the All Saints in town that we had missed and had a remarkable hour or so there. it ...


