Cambridge

Wow what a day I had. I took a guided walking tour to Cambridge. It was really packed with lots of interesting things. The day got off slowly because of train issues not strike related. Simon our tour leader was pretty up tight about the trains but we eventually got all worked out and made it to Cambridge about an hour train ride north of London. Cambridge is really booming due to tech and biotechnology. That is the future. Lots of new buildings going up at the periphery of the city especially around the train station. We were picked up by a bus and taken out to Madlington the location of the American military cemetery at Cambridge. There were multiple air bases located nearby and there were lots of American graves. The cemetery was very pretty. Afterwards we wandered around old Cambridge learning about all of the colleges such as Christchurch Trinity Kings College formed by various Tudor Kings or their mothers in the past and more recently by successful businessmen. The most spectacular of the Colleges was the chapel at Kings college. Spectacular stained glass windows and an elaborately carved flat stone roof which they don't know how it was constructed. We visited the Eagle Pub where Watson and Crick first announced the discovery of DNA. We visited the Cavendish laboratory where they had worked as well as the physicist Ernest Rutherford. We went to a small museum associated with a College attended by Charles Darwin which had specimens collected on the Beagle on his trip to the Galapagos including some finches. We saw an apple tree grafted from Isaac Newton original tree. We saw where Newton had discovered the speed of sound. It just went on and on. We made a visit to the Corpus clock with the Chronophage eating away at time-beware all Tik Tok users and time wasters. We finished with Punting on the river. We were exhausted and we were happy to head back to London on the train even if it was a milk run.Read more