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Kettle's Yard

Look round the cottages where the collector Jim Ede lived with his modern art, set out among pebbles, plants and light exactly as he left them.

Brick steps and an iron gate leading up to Kettle's Yard, shaded by a leafy tree

Castle Street, just north of the river

Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
  • Culture
  • Rain-proof ☔
  • Free
  • Cosy

Why it's a good date: More like visiting a friend's beautiful home than a gallery, and it'll have you rethinking your own shelves. The house is free but busy, so book a slot.

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Photo: David Hallam-Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized)

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  • Green tables and chairs under apple trees beside a gravel path in the Orchard Tea Garden

    Grantchester and the Orchard

    Mill Way, Grantchester, two miles south of the city

    The Orchard Tea Garden, 47 Mill Way, Grantchester, Cambridge CB3 9ND
    • Outdoors
    • Cosy

    Walk or cycle across Grantchester Meadows beside the Cam to the Orchard Tea Garden, and have tea and scones in a deckchair under the apple trees.

    Why it's a good date: The classic Cambridge afternoon, done the same way for over a hundred years. Go on a sunny day, and walk back along the river as the light goes.

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    Photo: Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized)

  • Tall conifers and a bright red autumn tree in the Botanic Garden, lit by low sun

    Cambridge University Botanic Garden

    Bateman Street, south of the city centre

    1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE
    • Outdoors
    • Romantic

    Wander forty acres of gardens and glasshouses, from the lake and the rock garden to the winter garden's bright stems.

    Why it's a good date: Peaceful at any time of year, and the glasshouses are a warm place to duck into when it's cold. Bring a book and find a bench.

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    Photo: temporalata, CC BY-SA 2.0 (resized)

  • The Eagle's RAF bar ceiling, covered in names and numbers written in candle smoke and lipstick

    The Eagle

    Bene't Street, city centre

    Bene't Street, Cambridge CB2 3QN
    • Bar
    • Rain-proof ☔
    • Cosy
    • Culture

    Have a pint in the old coaching inn where Crick and Watson announced they'd found the structure of DNA, and look up at the RAF bar's ceiling, covered in wartime airmen's graffiti.

    Why it's a good date: History you can sit in, with plenty to talk about. Go in the afternoon for a seat in the RAF bar.

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    Photo: Verbcatcher, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized)

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