After breakfast we loaded the car and made our way to reception to settle the bill. As we suspected they had added the Champagne to the bill twice although it was shown in two different ways so we nearly missed it. It took the staff some time to figure out what was amiss but they got there eventually. We headed into Cambridge arriving at G. David’s antiquarian bookshop just as it opened. We browsed around for a while but on this occasion I wasn’t tempted to buy a book but Mr C was.

Once we had finished browsing we made our way to St Bene’t’s church. In the church’s entrance porch a homeless guy had made his bed and was trying his best to keep out of sight and not be a ‘nuisance’.

On our way back to the hotel car park we stopped off at Patisserie Valerie for a quick drink, which turned out to be not very quick at all. Although the place was almost empty, the service was painfully slow.

When we got into the car it was like stepping into a freezer. There had been a respectable frost overnight and the car park was in shadow so it had not warmed up in the sunshine. We set off towards home with the intention of taking a diversion when we saw a brown sign. We didn’t see one for some time and began to think we might be out of luck when we saw a signpost for The Battle of Naseby. We visited two monuments to the Parliamentarian generals Fairfax and Cromwell and then headed towards Market Harborough for lunch where along the way we spotted a third related site for the Royalist general Prince Rupert and stopped to have a look at that too.

In Market Harborough we stopped off in a delightful tea shop for lunch. The food was delicious when it arrived but the service (in keeping with the weekend) was again rather slow. Afterwards we visited the town square, St Dionysius church and the war memorial before continuing on our homeward journey.