Finished tidying the flat and were out by 8:30am. We got a little lost getting to the train station but we got there. A quick train to Liverpool St Station and a 30 minute wait for our train to Cambridge.
We were away from Platform 3 on time at 9:28am.
We were lucky enough to be sitting across the aisle from three 20’s “boys” loudly talking and playing games on their phones and a person behind us coughing, and 9ne of the boys wasn’t well at all.
It seems like our train is an all stops to Cambridge. Hearing aide off for me and ear plugs in for Deb. Nasal spray for us both!!!
We arrived in Cambridge at 11am and got an Uber to our hotel, The University Arms. We were greeted by Val and Vic, “old” family friends from Worcestershire, they had driven down to meet us. It was very good to see them.
We checked in and then went to lunch at our hotel with them. It was great catching up with everything going on with them, we shared a nice lunch and a couple of drinks with them. Around 3:40pm we said our good byes and Val & Vic headed home. (So Val could watch Andy Murray play his 2nd round match at Wimbledon).
Our room is very comfortable overlooking the parklands. We unpacked and put our feet up for a while before heading out to Evensong at Kings College Chapel, Cambridge University. It was built between 1446 and 1515AD.
At about 4:40pm Deb read that people start queuing for Evensong at Kings College Chapel from 5pm. So we quickly got ready and headed out with Google maps guiding the way. We got to the entrance google set us in good time, it was just the wrong entrance! We back tracked and found a way in. The sign out front said the chapel was closed, we asked about Evensong and were let in.
The queue wasn’t bad, only about 40 people in front of us. They started letting us in at about 5:25pm, and the queue moved quickly. We were all guided to the front half of the chapel and past the choir stalls. No photos were allowed inside the chapel. The organ began to play and the choir paraded in, everyone rose from their seats, and we were under way. There is something special about good church boy choirs when they fill the volume of a large high ceilinged church with their voices.
The booklet we were given for the service explained the origins of Evensong. Evensong services were devised not long after the Kings College Chapel was built, with its origins in evening and night services of monks and nuns. They were devised to be more contemplative or meditative, an opportunity for daily peace and spiritual enrichment. It’s the meditative and peacefulness that we get from it. The service lasted about 45 minutes.
After it finished we walked back to our hotel through the back streets. It was at times like walking back in time, the buildings throughout Cambridge have so much history.
At times you feel like your in medieval England, other times Elizabethan or Tudor times. 
It’s quite surreal. Cambridge University was founded in 1209 and is the 5th oldest university in the world.
We grabbed a small pizza and went back to our hotel to watch Andy Murray play Stephanos Tsitsipas at Wimbledon. We got to the lift foyer and saw this sign, 
I was devastated (not 🤣🙈 )
