Knew it. Still cannot sleep well without my bolster. Had a rather restless sleep last night and woke up at 9.30 only coz Shuang Ning's alarm had rung and we were to set of for the grantchester Orchard at 10 if we were to make it for lunch at least. The Orchard is a quaint little place near the riverside with pretty overhanging trees serving typical English food and more classically, tea/coffee with scones. Well, our main aim for the hour plus walk there was the scones and tea anyway.



So. We walked by the back of the colleges of Cambridge where we could see the river, countryside and cottages. I did not know English houses were traditionally named not numbered. No wonder I have been seeing houses with 'Pendragon' and such on the outside. Walked past a pretty and Enid-Blyton book-ish house wth a wooden sign that read 'The White Cottage' outside its little white picket gate. How English is that? Anyway, pretty houses, pretty fields, pretty river. The walk was over an hour long but it was surprisingly not that tiring. We walked through the fields by the river instead and saw many old people and their happy bounding dogs.



Finally we smelt smoke and saw some brick buildings so it looked like we were headed towards some sort of civilisation. Whoopee-doo.



Bought our scones and tea for 4 (unfortunately not served in a pretty floral porcelain teapot but in the chinese restaurant kind of metal teapot :/) and chose a seat under a tree. It was a big field with a wooden hut which was the cafe and the tables and chairs were scattered throughout the field. They had simple square wooden tables painted green and 4 beach chairs with each table. Sooo 3 of us ordered a fruit scone and 1 person ordered a plain one. No one got the cheese one :(

The scones were MASSIVE and were really nice! Of course, the prices were comparable with its size too. Still. The experience was worth it. We had a selection of tiny potted jams (raspberry strawberry apricot blackberry), tiny potted honey and small disposable container clotted cream to eat the scones with. Of course, had to pay for that too but I liked the pots! So we shared and got the clotted cream, rasp and blackberry jams. The jams were actually nicer than normal jam! I would like to bring Papa Mummy Yiling and Evon to that part of Cambridge 1 day. Fantasised about Snoozy rocketing happily through the fields and being chased by geese too but for obvious reasons that won't be very plausible.

Den went back to change money and found out that the money shown to me in my bank account is not the actual amount? Why? I do not understand. They said certain payments were still being processed but on my internet banking that amount had been deducted and I still had the amount I thought I had left! Why? Hm. Anyway, the point being I couldn't withdraw enough money to convert coz the said I only had 1.25 left in my bank. Shockshock. That is NOT true by the way. I think the branch here just has a different system of counting the money.

However, I do plan to cut down my spending probably by hermitising myself again this Easter and working more den can see the figures go up. Yay I did earn a bit more than I calculated, which is always good. Ah. I must say I do feel rather ashamed of myself tho. Still, I did see this coming seeing as I had been shpping for 4 (La Senza, Pimark...) ALOT. But the things here are really much much cheaper here! How was I to not broadcast it home?

Off to porto tomorrow. Am keen to try port wine (and get some if it is affordable), portugese toasty thing and portugese egg tart. Okok. I should stop showing off. Showing off somehow always ends up with something ad happening for me. Sai.