Cambridge day trip

On Saturday, Lisa and I went to Cambridge to see the famous Cambridge university. We caught a train from Liverpool St to Cambridge, which took about an hour and 15 minutes. It was nice as we zipped through the small towns, and the country side outside London, passing farms, rivers, and river house boats.

When we arrived at Cambridge, the station was full with people, trying to leave Cambridge. Getting to the city center of Cambridge was about a 5 minute bus ride, and once there, we just wondered through the stoned streets, lined with chapels, churches, colleges and shops. It was a nice, and relaxed atmosphere as some of the roads being closed to traffic, allowed you to just wander around.

We passed Trinity college where Sir Issac Newton once studied, we saw the apple tree (a descendant of the original anyway), in which an apple dropped on his head, and born the gravity theory. We also entered Kings college to see the magnificent chapel, and buildings in the college grounds.


As we walked the streets, we saw many students were sprawled along the road, trying to get tourists to join them on a punting tour. Punting was fun, and required quite a bit of co-ordination, we hired a punt and took to the river ourselves... it took about 15 minutes for me to get used to how to steer the thing. I rammed a few other punts a couple of times, and got rammed a couple of times, nearly fell off a couple of times too. We made our way up and down the river for about an hour, passing though the back of some of the colleges of Cambridge university. Passing under some famous bridges such as the Mathematical bridge, Clare bridge and Bridge of Sighs. After 1 hour of punting and trying to stay on, I was sweating and aching.

The rest of the afternoon we spent wondering through more colleges, shops, back streets, canals and parks. We enjoyed going to Cambridge, and was a long time coming after putting it off for so long due to bad weather. I am glad we waited for a nice sunny day to go, otherwise there would have been no where to hide from the rain. It was a great day out, and great to get out of the London concrete jungle and congestion.