Was searching for a picture of a bar in Glasgow to send to a friend and came across this site… I think that pretty much sums up Cambridge dining and nightlife:

Well that’s the one decent shop in Cambridge (well okay, apart from the Apple Store) closing today. I’ll really miss: Magazines – easily the best magazine selection in the UK including US magazines (which contrary to popular belief aren’t just books full of ad’s). Opening times – sensible opening times targeting the ’50 quid bloke’, […]

I love when it snows. Of course there is the usual inconvenience factor (such as the whole of England shutting down when there is a flurry of snow) which lead to the classic nonsense excuses for not being able to do things. What I like especially is how uniform and clean everything looks (at least […]

Sorry for the lag of blogging recently. I’ve been so busy with the house move and travel for work (about to go another 3 weeks on the road again). Not helped by still not having Broadband at home (thanks to the mess that is BT). However, the good news is that there’s been plenty of […]

Back home in the UK. Arrive Thursay afternoon, off to post office to post some letter and sort out post re-direction. I can’t believe it’s less than 1 week before the move. The guy at the local post office was really helpful, the lady at the local coffee shop was really helpful, the people at […]

I’ve blogged about this before, but I really do find local news so amusing. As I walked through Cambridge yesterday I saw the following text at the stall selling newspapers: “Man found dead in city centre flat” My immediate thought was running up and writing the following text below: “hadn’t found secret to eternal life” […]

.. consumed over the weekend. Met up for breakfast at Automat in Mayfair. 10:30AM perusing the menu and I noted ‘Brisket sandwich with fries’ – of course anything else on the menu after that point didn’t seem at all appealing. Yes, 10:30AM and having a full lunch. I liked Automat, American style diner. Upon first […]

PC ‘World’Simple task – buy a 2.5″ SATA hard drive. Now you’d think you’d be able to get one of those from PC World Cambridge ? Wrong ! zero in stock (guess must be the same delivery company that supplies supermarkets). Of course loads of random nonsense hard drives like 80GB PATA ones (that I’m […]

Cambridge EateriesI read in the newspaper today that a company that owned a number of pubs in Cambridge had gone into liquidation. It mentioned the Cow – my heart sank – not another decent place in Cambridge going away !Thankfully not the case as it has been spared closure. It got me thinking about pubs […]

Dinner at Vietnamese restaurant in Cambridge. I like the food in this place, although the noodles/soup isn’t quite as appealing since I started to make it at home myself (of course my own home recipe has the magic ingredient of blood from cut fingers trying to chop beef into fine slices). The only trouble is […]