Express By Holiday Inn Cambridge

John

It was really sad leaving Israel. The flight back to Heathrow was about 4 hours by Jumbo then we bussed it back to Cambridge an hour late after I mixed up the bus tickets. We reached the flat in Cambridge around 1 am exhillerated but exhausted. What a brilliant two weeks!

Sue

It was very hard to leave Israel ...

Welcome to my first (and probably only) BLOG!

I have just booked a 32 week (8month-ish) overland trip to australia, taking in 23 countries by way of a big orange truck and my little one-man tent (which I have yet to buy!!).
I won't tell you how much this has cost, it makes me cry just to think about it... But if you ...

... will exist in my backpack. This will take some getting used to I think! I also seem to have come down with a rather wonderful cold- still, better here than on arrival in Bangkok.

One week tomorrow- oh my god! I just can't believe its come around so soon, feels like yesterday it was just an idea and now its a week away. Still lots to sort out, scanning a million things I will probably ...

We arrive at Stansted at about 8pm and proceed to have a, probably, day old burger somewhere in the airport. Yum. Turns out that all the shops, in the departure lounge and outside, close at about 9pm so we have to sit around for 4 hours before our flight boards with nada to do.

Finally we get on the flight with a load of other backpacker types and head to Malaysia!

... to ABC Classic Radio . One particular name I remembered was frequently mentioned was "Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martins in the Fields" and it left one of those unanswered questions in my head that I never bothered to look up. In wandering around Trafalgar Square I came across a church called St Martin-in-the-fields which prompted me to google it when I got home and learn about Marriner and the important role the St Martins in the ...

... the twin Airforce Bases are all US AirForce. I went to the Airshows here as a child, and some things I won't ever grow bored of - loud Jets being one of them (even if their usage is against everything I stand for, they are still mega cool).

So with the sun setting, we hit Lowestoft in Norfolk, staying at Helens Aunts house, playing with the Chooks and the Dogs :-)

... public trasport is easy in the sense that a 3 day pass for $18 gives unlimited travel on buses and trams, so if you get lost it only costs time. My first shock was to be put in a mixed dorm in the hostel. The 10 of us shared a bathroom. However it was nice to get information and tips from room mates. Down stairs was a Moroccan restaurant so we were not short of drums etc into the small hours. There was a magnificent ...

... such a thing! Then I got a little bit lost with one of my roommates but we eventually made it back to the bus. I loooooved Cambridge. We've all said we would really like to try and make another trip up there before we leave. It's such a different atmosphere from London. Very laid back and green, nothing like the city! I wish I would have had more time to just walk around and see some more of the city but we were on a pretty tight schedule. Today we all decided to take ...

... booked myself on the 11.30am walking tour of the city. Had some time to spare until the tour started, so I went for a walk and found some breakfast and saw some of the impressive buildings. The tour lasted two hours and only covered a very small part of the city. We started at the oldest building in town, a church tower from the Saxon times, built out of rubble in 1025. Cambridge is famous for its university and 31 colleges scattered all over the ...

... to England. Being 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 here... so there is still hope... can just imagine the competition though, and the expense:) Our guide said it costs about £3000 ...