Last Friday, I went on a day trip to Cambridge. It was an NYU-organized trip so we took coach buses from London and upon arriving in the city met up with our walking tour-guides. I got separated from my friends by using the bathroom and ended up in a different group than them. The walking tour was interesting but uneventful. Cambridge was a beautiful old city full of courtyards and colleges, many at least partly closed to visitors like a series of exclusive clubs.
After the walking tour I tried unsuccessfully to locate my friends, but their walking tour had finished earlier and all I had a quickly dying mobile phone and nobody's numbers. After a period of strife, I eventually forced myself to get over my annoyance at my abandonment and find somewhere to get lunch. I found a place called Tattie's who's sign advertised vegetarian and vegan options, so I went in, sat down by myself, and ate too much of a delicious baked potato with beans, cheese, and vegetarian sausage (and a side of onion rings.)
I stopped in and briefly looked around a bookstore called Heffers then went to the Church of St. Mary's the Great. I climbed an old, narrow, winding staircase up to the top of the bell tower where I stood alone with a birds eye view of the whole city, being serenaded by a saxophone quartet playing pop song arrangements on the street below. I could have stayed there ages, but finally I decided that I had taken enough pictures and looked out enough and descended back down the stairs. At St. Mary's I had told I could get 10% off at the cafe that was located in St. Michael's church, so I headed there for some tea. A person at a table near me seemed to be keeping a white rat in a small purse, which was mildly concerning. I finished my tea and left to go walk along the river, or as much as I could with much the colleges' green space closed off to visitors. I looked at the river, the grass, the bridges and the beautiful buildings before heading back to the coach to return to London.
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