Yes, I was once invited to speak at a meeting at Girton College and my wife and I fooled around in East Anglia afterwards. That was the day Diana was killed. "Why," asked she, "are the flags at half-staff?" "I dunno. I'm not British. Might be some sort of holiday, maybe."

Then, at Ely Cathedral, the Bishop his own self said: "Perhaps you have heard of the death of our Princess Diana...."

Oops.

But I did visit Castle Rising and a neolithic flint mine, as well as some of Cambridge and that big aerodrome outside of town.