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Cambridge Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge
This is a top pick! ... From there walked along the Backs. So named as it is at the back of the various famous colleges that form part of Cambridge University. Unfortunately, the colleges were closed though due to exams as they did not want to disturb the students study time. I ...
"Profoundly Bournemouth"
This is a top pick! ... in Cambridge telling each other how "profoundly" smarter we felt now that we were in the taint little town of Education. Cambridge is stunningly beautiful and being mildly serious for a moment, you do get a feeling of the people being educated here ...
Leaving Drinks - Cambridge Beer Festival
This is a top pick! Typical uni style leaving. 1) Pick a venue, as no one leaves close to each other anymore 2) Pick somewhere to get drunk 3) Drink 4) Civilised conversation 5) Drink 6) Take the piss out of Ginger Yanks 7) Drink 8) Scott try's in humman act that ...
Cambridge
This is a top pick! ... spring here makes it even more spectacular. If only I had of had the opportunity to do an international student exchange to Cambridge instead of University of Missouri-Columbia back in 1995! I have since found out that many foreign students do PHDs ...
Goodbye river
This is a top pick! ... in the river, so it's being drained. Never mind the ducks and swans, never mind the fish and other wildlife. A Cambridge graduate is missing! "I hope it's fixed by Saturday because I wanted to take my friend punting," my colleague said. In ...
Rained out
This is a top pick! ... He's at his field hockey game... equally messy... I'm glad volleyball works as well indoors as out! I had been training with Cambridge's big clubs... including the university team, because apparently I can play for them even though I'm not a student (just ...
Indecision
This is a top pick! I decided to take my writing to an advertising-free space, so my stories continue here: ...
Why do the English hate Kiwis?
This is a top pick! I've noticed that English agricultural protectionism seems to have led to English people hating kiwi fruits - not so much the fruit, but what they represent. I'm not making this up. On TV the other night I saw Helen Clarke, New Zealand's PM, ...
Water, water, everywhere...
This is a top pick! ... be worse). It took me an hour and forty-five minutes to get to work the other day, just travelling across Cambridge, because a series of accidents, combined with more people in cars because of the foul weather, resulted in gridlock on the arterial ...
Transport made me a morning person - temporarily
This is a top pick! ... riding along Midsummer Common there were cows grazing and ducks pottering about, so many that I almost ran over a duck. I think Cambridge ducks are particularly coddled, because rather than having the sense to waddle out of the way they all waddled ...
Settling in
This is a top pick! ... how I go. Ian and I's little flat is coming along nicely and I have a cheerful red bicycle with a basket, as you do in Cambridge. There's so many stupid things you have to buy when decking out a house that are awfully hard to handle when you don't ...
The wind
This is a top pick! It's so windy here today the hedge is almost getting blown to pieces, bits of leaf are smashing against the window like disoriented birds. The tall, dense trees in the park look like they're being strangled, their tops shaking violently, while the ...
Off North
This is a top pick! ... a lot of blue sky and the temperature was a comfortable 28oC, so we decided to resume our itinerary and headed off to Cambridge. It took two hours on the back roads which was much nicer riding than the damn highways. We had very little trouble finding a ...
So much to do!
Well, this seems like as good place as anywhere to put my travel diary... There is so much to do before the trip actually starts... 7 weeks (well, 48 days, 23 hours, 5 minutes and 48 seconds) until we fly out, and all we really have are our flights. ...
Day 6, Edinburgh-Cambridge: The sun does exist
... we left the thriving capital city of Scotland to navigate the Britrail system. After three separate trains we managed to arrive in Cambridge at 1pm. We checked into the first of our delightful YHA accommodations. Very basic, but you get what you pay for ...
Starting to get ready!
Right, started this all up the other day! Obviously the main picture wasn't taken by me. I just stole it from google till I get there. Have started collecting all my things together, and have them all in a nice bag in my room ready to be thrown into my ...
42. Collegial Cambridge
A few photos from a day trip to Cambridge with the flatties. Rating out of 10: 6 In a word: Elegant Something interesting: Cambridge is the result of students leaving Oxford after riots between scholars and ...
New home
We have moved into a share house with four other people, one of which is the guy who owns the place. It's in a good location and much cheaper than the 40 pounds per night we were paying at the B&B. We also got some second hand bikes which are coming ...
Reflections
Having been back a few days now, Ally thought she would detail her opinions of Berlin and the trip. Firstly, she was surprised how small the city is compared to London. Not only is the centre very compact, with a still very noticeable difference ...
The Long Journey Ahead
Our journey started straight after lectures on the Thursday, where we all chucked our bags into taxis and then walked round to the train station. We met up at 6pm and our train left at 6.45, which then headed into Kings Cross, London where we then walked ...
Here at last!
... of sales for the UK to discuss selling our ice cream carts here. We had a great discussion with him at the Royal Cambridge Hotel over a cold Guiness and creamed tea. I had the Guinness, Maggie had the tea. Creamed tea means they bring you ...
May 25, 2013
Day trip to Cambridge
... . We got the train in the morning and walked around town all day and came back at night. We visited a lot of churches in Cambridge. Overall, England has a ton of churches everywhere, and I enjoy going into all of them to see how pretty they are. This is ...
Journey's end
The 14 hour flight back was uneventful. I was met at the airport and got and update about my wife in hospital. I do not know if this is the end of my globe-trotting days. I shall clean and put away my backpack but shall continue to think about ...
After school classes
The after school classes will start in Art 4 (Ms Lanzrein's room) on Tuesday, 30th April ( and all subsequent Tuesdays). I hope that all the group will be present and that everyone will have bought (£1) an A4 sketchbook from the Art dept.or the school ...
Nearly Ready!
Well everyone, its nearly time for our time in the UK to come to an end, the bags are packed, the van is as ready as it will ever be and Zeke and the boys are sick of us sleeping on their floor! So the plan: We fly out to Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday ...
Into the eye of the storm?
In the days before my departure I saw the harrowing TV pictures of the havoc caused by the storms in the Far East and I wondered what lay ahead as I boarded the plane at Stansted Airport. Daughter Julia drove me there with Rose (wife) and it was a ...