My favorite spot in all of Cambridge is actually just outside of the city and is called the Orchard. It is an old apple orchard with a tea house that has served Cambridge students for over a hundred years. Various writers, poets and scholars have met here - it is an idyllic place to sit down, enjoy a cup of tea and have a scone with clotted cream and jam. One day while Mike was working, I took Scott for a visit. It is about a mile and a half bike ride to get there, traveling past fields, raspberry bushes, cows and the River Cam. On the way back, we got to enjoy a double rainbow - it was an amazing view!
Rupert Brooke wrote a poem about the Orchard (it is in the hamlet of Grantchester). Here is a portion that fits it so well:
I only know that you may lie
Day-long and watch the Cambridge sky,
And, flower-lulled in sleepy grass,
Here the cool lapse of hours pass,
Until the centuries blend and blur
In Grantchester, in Grantchester...
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