VISITING CAMBRIDGE - OUR FINAL "MUST SEE" CITY

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July 9th 2009

Published: July 9th 2009

We're back again with some more travel photos! Cambridge is a city in England that we've wanted to visit since we first arrived in August 2007. We figured that since the number of weekends remaining before we come home are limited, we had better get there soon! So, last weekend we hired a car and went on another road trip! Luckily the weather was on our side and it was a beautiful day. Strangely, ... Read Full Entry

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Will & Briana Truong

Briana and Will

We moved to England in August, 2007. We had just graduated university and were looking for our first teaching jobs, so we decided to venture overseas to travel around Europe and start our careers at the same time! While living in England we travelled and saw more places than we ever imagined would be possible! In addition to our travelling adventures, we got engaged on Christmas Day, 2007 and were married on August 22, 2009! What a wonderful way to spend those two years of our lives. We never thought we would have the opportunity to work and travel abroad. If you look around our blog you'l... full info

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Christ's College

Founded in 1437.

Clare Bridge

The oldest of Cambridge's current bridges. Built in 1639-40.

King's Bridge

Built 1819.

Mathematical Bridge

Built in 1749 but has been re-built on two occasions, in 1866 and 1905. The popular fable is that the bridge was designed by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts. Stories say that University students attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together but had to resort to adding nuts and bolts so that the structure would hold.

geese on River Cam

They are probably thinking "Damn all you people and your punting down the river. You're disturbing our peace!"

Holy Trinity Church

Will in Cambridge

Walking down a small, narrow street

St.John's College

St.John's College Chapel

New Court building - covered in ivy

part of St.John's College.

Trinity College & Wren Library

Designed by Christopher Wren and completed in 1695. It houses notable rare books and collections such as Isaac Newton's first edition copy of Principia Mathematica, A.A. Milne's manuscript of Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner and The Capell collection of early Shakespeare editions.

Jesus College

Founded in 1496. The college's full name is "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge."

River Cam

Holy Sepulchre, a.k.a the Round Church

Built around 1130. Inspired by the original church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

street musicians

street in Cambridge

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