The Sights

CAMBRIDGE

Cambridge is a city on the River Cam in eastern England, home to the prestigious University of Cambridge, dating to 1209. University colleges include King’s, famed for its choir and towering Gothic chapel, as well as Trinity, founded by Henry VIII, and St John’s, with its 16th-century Great Gate. University museums have exhibits on archaeology and anthropology, polar exploration, the history of science and zoology.

ELY CATHEDRAL

Ely Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The cathedral has its origins in AD 672 when St Etheldreda built an abbey church. The present building dates back to 1083, and cathedral status was granted it in 1109

NEWMARKET

Newmarket is the home of horseracing and training. The town exists for and is all about horses. Horses have rightb of way everywhere in and around town and even have their own special road crossings. All traffic must stop and wait if horses are crossing.

Horses have been trained on Warren Hill for over 350 years. One of the greatest sights of the thoroughbred world is to stand at the bottom of Warren Hill anytime from 6am and watch the various trainers’ ‘strings’ file past and head up the hill at the gallop. If you were to stay the distance until 11am some 1200 horses will have filed past you. Our vantage spot is just a few hundred metres from our hotel so we usually head up for an hour or so before breakfast.

Aside from numerous top stables and studs the town houses the National Stud and National Horseracing Museum, both of which we will visit.