Blogs from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 24

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

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

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

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

Second day here was fairly eventful. We had a two hour walking tour of Cambridge. It was interesting, but I wouldn't have said two hours worth of interesting, especially in the unpredicted wind that came up. We did get to see several of the Cambridge University colleges and some of the historic churches - including one that was built in 10xx and is the oldest building in Cambridge. The history of the colleges was initially very interesting, but got old after about the third one. There are only so many crests you can look at and still be fascinated. We were done by a little before noon, and we were turned loose for lunch and the rest of the day. I went to a pub (the Sir Issac Newton, a football (soccer) oriented pub) for lunch ... read more