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Punting and more in Cambridge
Published: July 25th 2005Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cambridgeshire » Cambridge
July 23rd 2005
With our passports at the Swedish embassy and vacations that we have to use up, last Saturday was ‘be an English tourist’ day. The options were many - Marlow, Oxford, Bath, York but we zeroed in on Cambridge. Often regarded as one of the most beautiful universities in the world, with an interesting history to boot, we took the train from Kings Cross (a la Harry Potter) down to Cambridge. London is well connected to Cambridge with trains from Kings Cross as well as Liverpool Street. The fast train will get you there in 45 minutes and the normal one in 90. A cheap day return ticket will cost £17. For train timings refer to http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/planmyjourney/time_table/journey_requirements.asp?&T2ID=3052_2005725173028. From the Cambridge railway station you can either hire a bike or hop onto the Sightseeing tour bus (£8 a ... read more
Dave's Departure
Published: July 11th 2005Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cambridgeshire » Cambridge
July 4th 2005
Dave left on Independence Day in true symbolic style! Many goodbyes later, Alice and Pete packed up from Cambridge for the last time and made our way back to our respective homes, to wait for another two weeks for departure...... read more
Catching up!
Published: April 30th 2005Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cambridgeshire » Cambridge
April 30th 2005
This blog I'm afraid will be a bit of a mixed bag, as it is a bit reliant on being able to download camera pics. After leaving the Osaka area, we flew to Tokoyo and stayed in the central bussiness area. We visited Tokoyo Tower, Imperial Palace, Toyota display centre, the Giza area (major department store shopping area) and Electric City. Didn't realise there was so much variety in computers, MP3s, Ipods, toasters and toilet seats!!!:) Yes the Japs have auto toilet seats that do almost everything for you, including wiping your bum. The best part of Tokoyo of course was catching up with Maimai and Aki (you remember cute little Maimai, she was our first exchange student) We went out to dinner at Shinigawa the night before we left Japan. Aki is still at uni ... read more
March 28th 2005
Evan came to visit this week. He got in Monday morning and we were just lazy all week (a truly relaxing week). Thursday we went punting with Matt, and then Saturday we spent in London wandering around Notting Hill and ate dinner in China town. I headed back to Cambridge that night and Evan stayed in London Saturday night to get to Gatwick early Sunday morning.... read more
March 14th 2005
For my duration in Cambridge, I joined the Cambridge University Rock Society, mainly because several of my friends belong and I was forced! :) They sponsor the "fortnightly" rock and metal night at the Kambar that I might have been known to appear at. Today was their Annual General Meeting (AGM) where they vote in the new officers. I was coerced into going by Oli, who promised blackjack and free food to anyone who showed up. I turned up, and it was fun indeed. This entry is basically an excuse to put up the photo of The Last Sausage Roll... I neglected to get pictures of the new President/WUS officer or the Events Officer (who stayed the same).... read more
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Parents are here
Published: April 24th 2005Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cambridgeshire » CambridgeMarch 4th 2005
Mom & Dad made it here in one piece, but its been one heck of a long day. I left here at 6:15 to catch the train to London, then the tube (which was having delays) to another station to get to Gatwick. I was a little late thanks to the tube delays, but so was their flight. An hour after they landed they finally got through customs, and then we had to do the fun ride back to Cambridge. However there were all kinds of train issued due to the snow, so the train we were on was terminated about 3 stops from cambridge and we had to get on a different one later; our hour train ride ended up being 2.5 hrs with all the delays. We finally got back, dropped off the luggage, ... read more
February 18th 2005
I went English folk dancing with Tristan. Apparently he did it in college. It was definately interesting, though we were by far the youngest people at this particular gathering. We may later go to some in Cambridge, which would be more people our age. I went back to Cambridge, and that Monday two of my friends returned from 3 weeks in India! They had a load of experiences there... I'm not sure I could have done it. I went to the pub with them on Tuesday night, and then to the local metal club night.... read more
Stay home (Cambridge)
Published: February 6th 2005Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cambridgeshire » Cambridge
February 6th 2005
It was quite a lazy weekend, which was exactly what I/we needed. Thursday there was a group of 7 of us that walked to Madingley which is a small town just outside of Cambridge which houses the only American Cemetary in the British Isles. There are almost 4000 graves in the cemetary and over 5000 names on the wall of the missing. The engraving over the wall says, "The Americans whose names here appear were part of the price that free men for a second time in this century have been forced to pay to defend human liberty and rights - all who shall hereafter live in freedom will be here reminded that these men and their comrades we owe a debt to be paid with greatful rememberance of their sacrifice and with the high resolve ... read more
February 2nd 2005
The exiting things parade ground to a halt last week because I came down with a very violent case of the stomach flu last Tuesday night. I remained very, very, very sick until roughly Sunday. It was so bad I even went to a doctor because I was afraid I needed an IV because I was losing so much fluid. Now I'm only a little bit sick, and functioning again. It's been a killer week of classes because art has started and we have four class periods to make up. Lots of classes every day, some of them /way/ longer than my attention span. Monday night it was the 21st birthday of one of the girls in the house, so we did a group pub crawl to carry on the american tradition of getting someone drunk. ... read more
February 1st 2005
We had a group celebration for my 21st birthday since I had the first birthday of the semester (I think there may be a total of 3 birthdays). Greg & Charley made cupcakes and brought them to class in the morning & I got sung to and then later that night my friends here made a cake & got some ice cream before we went out as a group. We finally have a group shot of all 18 of us! I got a couple of cards in the mail & fun packages from the girls back at school, so it made for a good birthday, even being away from the people that I normally celebrate with.... read more
