We soaked up some of the clever brain cells floating round Cambridge at the weekend.
It was three days of lectures and tours for the alumni but we gate crash every year using the second son's name. It was wonderful. We (or should I say I - since I caught my other half's head nodding lower and lower) learned about Renaissance architecture and music in Venice and there wasn't a dry eye in the lecture theatre when a sample of singing from St John's College Choir was played as they sang in a small hospital chapel on a Venetian island. We heard a debate between Sir Peter Hall, Sir Trevor Nunn and Julian Pettifer about Shakespeare at Cambridge; we were shown onto the T.B. balcony (where all the beds were pushed) of the Judge Business School which used to be Addenbrooke's Hospital and we heard Zadok The Priest sung in the magnificent Kings College Chapel.
If you're planning a trip to this fantastic place I can recommend the Garden House Hotel which overlooks the river - and if you book it on the internet you'll get much better rates.
I can also recommend the Loch Fyne restaurant and Edwinns Bistro. We met up with the London son who was literally on a flying visit from Hamburg, at the Rupert Brooke pub in Grantchester - another recommendation.
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