Scholar Gypsy Narrowboat.

Scholar Gypsy was named by an Oxford don and comes from the title of a poem by Matthew Arnold 1853.   "...Or in my boat I lie,  Moor'd to the cool bank in the summer heat,  'Mid wide grass meadows which the sunshine fills, ...."    The poem was based on the tale of an impoverished student who left his studies to join a band of gypsies to find out their traditional way of learning. Now moored in Ely, the boat was filled with students following the May 'Bumps,' (held in June.)  Further along the river, at Fen Ditton, the boat clubs race over a short course and it's quite chaotic as anything goes. I was watching as they returned to their boat houses and will probably be back tomorrow the last day.