{"id":161,"date":"2010-11-07T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T00:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-11-07T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T00:40:42","slug":"trip-report-cambridge-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/trip-report-cambridge-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip report – Cambridge, Uk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew. We got back on Thursday and I’m just now starting to feel the jet-lag subside. My partner David and I flew to the UK for a couple of software<\/a> conferences<\/a> in Cambridge, then spent a few days in London, followed by Paris! I was looking forward to returning to Cambridge, we visited there three years ago and this time I was going to have a few more days to explore the city.<\/p>\n

The first day it rained, but I was undeterred (and had remembered to pack a couple of umbrellas); I headed out for some wandering and shooting in the moody weather.<\/p>\n

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I stopped for lunch at the Rainbow Cafe<\/a>, which is located right across from Kings College. Finding vegetarian food isn’t a huge challenge in the UK, most every pub has something (usually a veggie risotto for some reason), but I always try and track down restaurants which are entirely veggie. The food was delicious; I warmed up with soup and some hot tea, and ventured back out.<\/p>\n

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Bit of personal history – long before I ventured into the world of photography, my obsession was Anthropology. I’m still a huge history and evolution geek. When I was nine, a friend of my parents gave me a fossil, and blew my mind by telling me it was a million years<\/em> old.\u00a0 I decided then and there to be an archaeologist when I grew up.<\/p>\n

Which clearly didn’t happen. Yet I still beeline for the nearest museum full of rocks, bones, and artifacts. One of the many reasons I love the Uk, it’s full of museums. Most of them are free to enter, plus they allow photography. Occasionally they are full of artifacts plundered<\/span> collected from cultures all across the globe. The photos above were shot at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences<\/a>, where some of Darwin’s<\/a> specimens and notes from the Beagle voyage were on display. That’s his signature in the book in the top photo. I couldn’t resist. Charles Darwin’s autograph.<\/p>\n

The next day it stopped raining, I walked even further than the day before.<\/p>\n

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The center of Cabridge is where most of the famous colleges are, Kings, Queens, Trinity, etc, along with a number of churches. The surrounding city is a bit less dramatic, neighborhoods with row houses, pubs, and shops. Don’t be misled by this quaint photo essay, there’s plenty of modern architecture in Cambridge, I just couldn’t be bothered to record any of it. We all know what a mall looks like.<\/p>\n

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Magdalene College, with a lovely garden in front, located right on the river Cam. The boats are punts<\/a> – copied from Venice. Going ‘punting on the river Cam’ is one of those ‘must do’ tourist experiences.<\/p>\n

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Gorgeous little shops…<\/p>\n

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The traditional colleges are stunning, each one has tremendous history and reputation.<\/p>\n

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Autumn was in full swing.<\/p>\n

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Our third day there, David took a break from conferencing, and we went punting with Scuramore’s<\/a>. Our guide was both hilarious and informative. If you travel to Cambridge, I recommend punting with a guide as you get a view of the colleges along the river unavailable otherwise – some are open for tours, but not all.<\/p>\n

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This bridge is a copy of the ‘Bridge of Sighs<\/a>‘, also from Venice. Some day I’ll have to go there and see the original. There’s another copy in Oxford, which was used in one of the Harry Potter films.<\/p>\n

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The ‘Mathematical Bridge’<\/a>, designed William Etheridge, and built by James Essex in 1749. It’s been taken apart and put back together twice by students.<\/p>\n

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Hope you enjoyed Cambridge! We sure did. I wish we’d had a bit more time (I didn’t make it to all the museums!), but we left for London the next day.<\/p>\n

Where we stayed – De Vere University Arms Hotel<\/a>, which was a bit run down, but clean and the breakfast was good. It’s also very convenient to the city center, overlooks a park, and has free (but slow) wireless in the rooms.<\/p>\n

Food – Rainbow Cafe<\/a>, Mai Thai<\/a> – super spicy, but yummy.<\/p>\n

Drinks – Several pubs. Don’t miss a good pub when you go to Cambridge. Many of them serve food, often of good quality.<\/p>\n

We also bought several postcards to send home featuring images shot by photographer Derek Langley<\/a>. His site<\/a> is worth taking a look at, he does fantastic black and white, sepia tone, and Infra-red photography of Cambridge, London, and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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