Over the weekend my kid decided to rent a canoe and paddle way out for a picnic on the Grantchester Meadows.
The journey took us past the old Darwin family home (now the nucleus of Darwin College) and the associated private island, past fields of drunken revelry, and to the weir.
At that point you have to disembark, haul the vessel up a steep bank, and cross a busy foot path before dropping the canoe back in the upper river – a messy wet business at best!
We spied fields of sheep, countless baby ducklings, and a whole flotilla of goslings before arriving at our destination. The whole enterprise was impossibly beautiful:
