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We discovered rather quickly that walking around Cambridge takes time, as intriguing buildings beckon seductively along every street.
The first one for us was the famous Fitzwilliam Museum (free entry, as with most Cambridge museums), a wonderful whirlwind of armour, ceramics, art, and fascinating Egyptian and Roman antiquities. By the time we’d explored, elevenses beckoned so we dived into local institution Fitzbillies for a coffee and their famous Chelsea buns (very sticky, very sweet).
Next up, a college crawl. Cambridge University’s colleges are sprinkled across the city. We began at King's. It’s the grandaddy of them all, partly