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Street Market in London

We ate and drank our way through a huge street market in London. Name a type of food and it was there. Crowds of people purchased food to take home or eat at the market.
Drunk Cheese and cheeses from all over England were for sale at this booth.

Olives from Turkey…some I had never heard of.

The street market takes place on the site of an original market. This part used to be for potato merchants.


No street market would be complete without freshly shaved pig’s leg…ummm.

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Thorpeness, England


The House in The Clouds was originally built in 1923 as water storage for the village of Thorpeness. Now it serves as resort accommodations with 5 bedrooms, 3 baths. lawn tennis and boules. The top floor provides the best views of Suffolk.


The Thorpeness Windmill was built in 1803, then remodeled to provide water to The House in The Clouds. It is a working windmill today.


Thorpeness, England house.

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Adelburgh, England


Fish and Chips…along the English Channel…what’s not to like?


After all, this place is a registered member. And guidebooks tell this is the most famous place in England.


The line formed around the block when they put out their sign that they were “frying”.


Walking along the rocky beach.


Hopefully this is NOT one of the lifeboats…

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Bridges in Cambridge, England


The Bridge of Sighs:
Locals say it is so named as students sigh after taking exams at St. John’s College.


There are more than 25 bridges over the River Cam in Cambridge, England.


The Mathematical Bridge:

The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden bridge across the River Cam between two parts of Queen’s College. Its official name is simply the Wooden Bridge.
The bridge was designed by William Etheridge , and built by James Essex in 1749. It has been rebuilt on two occasions, in 1866 and in 1905, but has kept the same overall design.
The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self supporting.

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Punting in Cambridge


A Punt is a flat bottomed boat without a keel and is propelled by means of a long pole. These were introduced as a pleasure craft in Edwardian times. Now they serve as a means to view the famous bridges and colleges along the River Cam.


The Punts at Scudmore’s. F.Scudmore founded his business in 1910 and today has the largest fleet of Punts, nearly 150.


Punts today are 6 to 7 meters long and 1 to 2 meters wide. The pole is 5 meters long.


One of Cambridge’s bridges in the background. More on those in a later blog.


Before railways much of England’s trade relied upon rivers as roads became mudpits after rains. Transport by Punts was slow by very economical. A punter can push well over a ton along with no more fuel than a few cheese sandwiches and a pint of Guinness…or so the story goes.

Of course the locals like to race…