Some More Traditional Views of Cambridge
Thursday 07/26/2007 6:45 PM (In the United Kingdom: 11:45 PM)
OK, so here is the River Cam, which runs through Cambridge. Those boats on the right side would be "punts," and at every bridge, there's some college student (or four) holding a sign and asking if you'll "go punting" today ... which is when you sit down in the boat (after forking over $20-30) and let someone else use big poles to push you around the river.
Here's the colorful fruit & veggie market in City Centre.
Here is the main "You Are Here" map of City Centre.
I think this is the main entrance to the University, but I'm not sure (I didn't take the tours or buy the maps ... I decided to bask in my American ignorance for the day). And just to clarify, Cambridge U consists of several dozen independently-run colleges, like Trinity College (where the Milne stuff is ... also where Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, William Wordsworth, etc. were schooled -- see anything in common here? Hint: I was the only woman in the reading room on both of the days I did research here)
I'm pretty sure this is Green Street ... I took it because it looks like most of the streets around City Centre (apparently there is more to Cambridge than this, but I didn't see it).
See? Here's another street, only a little later (around 9 pm).
Evidently this is a Cambridge favo(u)rite, which is unsettling, since I have only known pasties to come out of Finnish-American kitchens. (I've heard some nasty rumors about Cornish bakers and their "pasties," but I thought they were all urban legends.)
They look like pasties, almost smell like pasties ...
but these ain't pasties (Steak & Guinness; Lamb & Mint ...). Yooper Wannabes!
Hmmph, I say to the Cornish Compliment ... (Ok, so I did try one, and it wasn't bad, though it was pretty different from the UP pasties).
I've got another post's worth of Cambridge pictures, but it's getting really late and I have to be at the train station by 7:30 tomorrow morning so that I can be at Heathrow by 9 so that I can make it through security and on board my 12:00 flight to HELSINKI. (side note: there was absolutely NO security at the King's Cross National Rail Station in London. I carried on one large suitcase and the rolling laptop bag and neither me nor my bags were sent through any sort of metal detector or x-ray ... in fact, I never even had to use my ticket -- no one asked for it and there was no checkpoint at which I needed it for anything. Unreal.)
This last image is for Alex: there is a cool airplane race on the Thames river in London this weekend, and this is an ad for it that I saw on the Tube wall. I really wish I could go to take pictures of it for Alex, but I'll be in Finland. I think I'll have more fun in Finland, though, because the race would only make me miss Alex more, and the whole time I would be thinking about how much more fun I would be having if he was with me. I might be thinking that in Finland too, but at least then I'll be in Finland! (Alex, ask Uncle Peter to let you visit the website).
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