Punting on the Cam

Many town and city names in England have a logic to them. The Cam River flows through Cambridge, and evidently at some point there was a bridge over the river which gave the town its name. (On our first weekend here, when we rented a car and drove around East Anglia, we came to a sea town called Great Yarmouth. As we drove up the river that dumped into the ocean there, we wondered if it was called the Yar. Turned out to be the Yare River. Close enough.)

One of the tourist attractions in Cambridge is punting on the Cam. A few weeks ago, our next door neighbors had company from New Zealand, and they invited me to come along on a punting expedition. It was amazing how much you could see from the river that you can't see any other way. Here are some of the 127 photos I took in that half hour expedition. Most of the buildings are part of various of the colleges of Cambridge University. In the second photo, you'll see Viv, our neighbor, on the left, her husband Jeremy in front, and their guests behind Jeremy. You'll also see there are a whole lot more than one bridge over the Cam these days.