Old Boot two

Tunnel

Ambience rather more fine than one usually gets for fine dining in public houses, and we were sat in the antique brick vault snapped above. I did not think at the time to ask what it was for, and Bing does not help. I thought maybe an old oven or maybe an overground cellar from the days of floods in the Fens, with the sturdy arch taking the weight of the barrels above.

Bread and olives good. Worth a mention as the bread in these places is often very poor.

Wine good. A Gavi from Tenimenti Ca' Bianca, part of  the Gruppo Italiano Vini.

Roast pork poor. One suspected that it had been cooked some time before and warmed up in a microwave. Roast potatoes undercooked. But there was a dollop of crinkly cabbage and, I think, dollops of various other vegetables. Plus an individual Yorkshire pudding, fresh enough, but served with the wrong sort of meat and a pale shadow of what you might get if you could be bothered to cook a proper one yourself, something which only happens very rarely in our own kitchen.

Calvados

Passed on pudding, but they did sell Calvados, as befits a group with a French name (Blanc) and it came warm with the trimmings snapped above, to remind us that we were indeed fine dining.

Very pleasant young team front of house.

Fairly busy by the time we left, around 1400 on a Sunday afternoon.

Gutter for bicycles

A reminder at the station that we were near Cambridge, in the form of a side gutter up the stairs, up which one is supposed to wheel one's bicycle. I would have thought that carrying would be less awkward, provided that the stairs were not busy. The only other such gutters that I know come with the footbridge over the Cam leading to the lido at Jesus Green, a place which I used to use before school in the second half of my time at primary school. The far off days when small children were allowed out at funny times of day on their own! On the main roads too.

By the time we got back to Ely, a crescent moon was visible to the south, horns pointing left. So actually a waxing moon, as explained towards the end of reference 3.

Reference 1: https://www.gruppoitalianovini.it/index.cfm/en/. The home of the wine.

Reference 2: https://boothiston.com/. The home of the pub.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/04/winters-tale.html.

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