@TomTB Wow, that's a cool coincidence. I'm new to Cambs myself, and I'm... well, it's nice here for certain values of nice, but rather quiet and rural. Even Cambridge itself is... it's almost perfect in a city in terms of its attitude and culture, it's urbane and student-y and cultured, probably as close to my old local area as you could get outside of the nicer parts of London, but I haven't been able to find much to DO.
On the other hand, I LOVE the open-air home made and artisanal food and craft markets that seem ten a penny round here - that was a once a year at Christmas thing previously, so I look forward to those when I'm not being good with money.
Any suggestions for nice things to try this weekend you can reach by train or bus? We're in Ely ourselves, and we visited a mall in Newmarket once with OH's parents. Nice restaurant, what we saw of the town seemed more of the same as Ely to be honest. Pleasant but sedate - bucolic heaven or hell, depending on what mood I'm in.