Cambridge

We have already taken a trip to Oxford and felt so welcomed on campus, so this time we took a trip to Cambridge and felt the same collegiate English hospitality. We had an entire day to roam around the college town and get acquainted with the campus. The Fitzwilliam Museum was one of my favorite parts of the campus. It housed some of the major works of Turner, Cezanne, Rembrandt, and many more. We visited a few of the major colleges such as: Trinity College (Sir Isaac Newton graduated from this particular one), King’s College, Queen’s college and St. John’s College. The beautiful architecture of the old, authentic buildings displayed the tradition and history that was present at the University. 

We took a punting tour on the river that runs along the side of the major colleges. Our guide had just been accepted to King’s College for next year to study English. He told us a few fun stories as we enjoyed our boat ride. We went under a wooden bridge that Sir Isaac Newton had originally assembled with out any nuts, bolts, nails and screws. He had built it with pure mathematics and physics. Years after his death some students took the bridge a part and tried to re-assemble it the way Newton had done. They failed miserably and had to nail it all together. One year a student climbed to the top spires of King’s College Chapel and put a traffic cone on top of it. The faculty waited a few days for the cone to blow off, but it never did. Finally they built a scaffolding tower to reach the cone and remove it for good. During the night the student climbed back up and put the cone on the other tower. Pranks supposedly happen all the time on campus. 

That night ended with evensong at King’s College Chapel. The music was astounding. I loved the Cambridge campus and landscape and wouldn’t mind visiting again one day.