Honeymoon Day 9 - 15

My my my! I've been missing in action from bloggers world for more than 2 months! I didn't go on strike, I just wasn't up to it.

In summary honeymoon days 9 - 15 were spent in Cambridge, back to London to return our rental then crossed the English channel to Paris.

It was great and yes, we did take lots and lots of pictures in the slides below:

We left Oxford after breakfast at our B & B at Newton's place and headed to Cambridge. When we arrived in town it was still quite early so we decided to drive around for a while before checking in at our next B & B at The Barn in Littlebury.

With the help of our GPS we managed to find the city centre and a parking place. Like Oxford, Cambridge is very limited when it comes to driving in the town centre so we had to look for the closest multilevel parking area. That we did and we just walked around town.

After getting ourselves orientated, we headed for King's College and entered into their famed Chapel. It was truly amazing. There's even the very old organ (HUGE) presented to the university by King Henry VIII when he was married to Anne Boleyn before he had her head chopped off. So that means that the organ was presented to the university between 1533 and 1536.

The next day, we explored Cambridge a bit more and visited Trinity College - the largest college of The University of Cambridge. Among the famous occupants of this college was Sir Isaac Newton. Much of our time in Trinity College was spent inside the Wren Library as it housed great historical artifacts I would say - the little notebook that Sir Isaac Newton wrote his expenses, A. A. Milne's manuscripts of one of my favourite cartoons: Winnie-the-Pooh and many many more. It was also fun to identify who are the geeks doing research in the library during this time as the university was on their Easter break. Oh yes, there were nerds around the library and campus grounds!

After our "educational" tour, we left the campus grounds and headed to explore the town - markets, toilet stops, malls, shops.

Soon it was time to leave Cambridge and head back to our B & B.

But, not before making a quick stop to the War Museum!

Haaaa.... home sweet home (well temporary home away from home!). We stayed at the Barn B & B, owned by Diana Duke. She's 85 years old, owns and runs this B & B which originally was a barn and converted into delightful rooms complete with en-suite, and kitchen. Her son runs a construction business that converts old barns into homes, and this B & B is a really good showcase of his work. Diana is really a good host and it was wonderful to be able to talk to her about her life, her travels and family during our breakfast. We had our last dinner in England in Clavering. To be exact, The Criketers - owned and run by Jamie Oliver's parents. That's right, the childhood home of the Naked Chef! Dinner was superb, the service excellent and I even bought a signed copy of Jamie's latest book "The Ministry of Food" for 25 pounds. What an excellent souvenir.

Time flies so fast and before we realise it, it was time to leave England and head to Paris on the Eurostar. We left Littlebury around 10am, arrived in London at 11.30am. Got lost in London and spent the next hour and a half looking for the darn Avis rental station. Needless to say we missed our 2pm departure on the Eurostar!

We had bought our tickets earlier online (cheaper) and prayed hard that we can get a refund and buy another couple of tickets on the next available time.

From Avis rental station Fred asked for a taxi. Half an hour later, a brand new Mercedes pulls up into the parking lot to take us to the train station. The trip from Avis to the train station is another story. Never.... never.... NEVER in my life have I witnessed a man sooooo in looooooove:

Our driver (from some middle eastern country) was talking on his cellphone to his girlfriend (also from the same middle eastern country) from the moment we got into the car until we were a few meters away from the station. Amongst the lovey dovey talk were [by the way the .... were spoken in their own middle eastern language]:

1. you wait for me.... please... come on, please, say you will...
2. i miss you..... i love you... yes?!.... awwwww, please.....
3. you wait?!..... promise.....you promise?!.....please.....i promise you know....
4. oh, you promise.......ok, i see you later
5. you hang up first....you first...i love you...[kiss, kiss, kiss], you first..... bye [kiss, kiss, kiss]...
   

Excuse me, who's on the honeymoon here?! Oh come on. This was total infatuation overdose! Fred gave him a twenty quid tip (that's like RM100) so the driver can take his ladyfriend out for a drink or a meal someplace!

Leaving our live daytime soap opera behind us, we stepped into the station and quickly looked for the ticketing office. We were so lucky that our tickets could be replaced with new ones at no extra charge, and there were seats left on the next train. Our prayers were answered! Since we had about an hour and a half before departure, we decided to have a late lunch inside the station. Lunch was simple but so darn expensive! Well, you gotta eat.

The following slideshow is just a collection of photos taken for the remainder of our honeymoon. The pictures are self explanatory, but if you want more.... check out our honeymoon scrapbook available in our living room soon!