Blogs from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

An diesem Tag habe ich mir Cambridge angesehen. Ich war bei einigen Colleges, in der Great St. Mary's Church und auf derem Turm, in einem Pub und auf der anderen Seite der Cam in The Backs.... read more

Three Weeks. Five Countries. Eleven Flights. I've decided to keep a blog of my holiday for people to follow without having to worry about the privacy of Facebook or flooding my twitter feed. Only two and a half days until I leave for the first of many flights and things are starting to get real. All flights and hostels booked, now I just have to wait. I've created a montage of the predicted weather for each location. One week is better than here, one week the same and one week worse than home. Two days I wanted sunny are cloudy. But Accuweather isn't the most accurate, especially the further into the future you go so I'm keeping my finger crossed. ... read more

August 27 Cambridge – Addenbrooks Hospital - I did some extensive research on the internet and at local resources and figured out that the hospital that Mom trained at during the war in Cambridge before going to London to work as a nurse there was at the AddenBrooks Hospital which had its name changed during the war to First Eastern General Hospital. It is now the Judges Institute. The building has been repainted and remodeled a bit but is still essentially the same. I am sure it was nowhere near as colorful during the war. Judges Institute formerly Addenbrooks Hospital renamed First Eastern General Hospital during the war(which was the name Mom recognized when I called her today). People in Cambridge call it Old Addenbrooks since a new Addenbrooks Hospital has been built in another part ... read more

It just doesn't seem possible to rest my feet here, there is always places to go, people to see, sleep to not get. I'm starting to think people are lying about the weather here in England; so far it has been at least 22degrees everyday and really really humid! So being another beautiful day in England we decided to go punting in Cambridge. Cambridge is about 1 hour from Biggleswade, but instead of driving all the way into the main town we drove to a Park and Ride and took a bus into the centre. I've heard of Oxford being beautiful (and I'm sure to see it one day) but Cambridge will be pretty hard to beat. Apparently the weekends are always busy in the summer and there is always a market in the centre. This ... read more

June 20th: Well we finally had a snorer last night, luckily; due to the tail end of jetlag and the fact I didn't get to bed till about midnight (hardcore, I know!) I was able sleep through it easily enough. Chowed through a large hostel breakfast which hopefuly means I won't need food for most of the rest of the day, especially as I'll be sitting on a bus for a couple of hours of it. Same as yesterday; I wouldn't mind staying here longer, it's not the hardest city to deal with once you get over the scale of it and how many people are around...I guess though that with a holiday like this it's kind of good to keep moving because you never know how cool the next place will be... plus i'm staying ... read more