A recommendation for Finches

We've stayed quite often in the past at Finches B&B in Cambridge.

And whenever we go to Cambridge (which is as often as we can - we're graduates of Cambridge university and still have a lot of friends living there), we always try to stay there.

Even though it's a 3-mile walk out of town.

Why?

It's very comfortable and always spotlessly clean.

It's not every B&B where the hostess greets you at the door with a hug (though of course Jane does know us well, as we've stayed there a lot before!). She and her husband Nigel are always friendly and welcoming, and to be met with a pot of tea when you've driven from Cumbria is bliss.

And the breakfasts are delicious. Home-made fresh fruit salad to start, with watermelon and mango in it, and no cheap cocktail cherries. Matt followed that with the full English, and although it did have baked beans, there were only a small pool of them - not covering half the plate to disguise the lack of anything else. I had poached eggs on toast. Mmm. Good quality seeded brown bread, fresh eggs and lashings of real butter. (B&B hosts who put margarine on toast and call it butter should be custard pied.)

We're already planning our next break in Cambridge..