Cambridge trip

I won't want to bore you with what I've been doing during the past week except to write about our day trip to Cambridge organised by the Postgraduate Student Assciation. We set off from Nottingham at around 9:45am yesterday and arrived at Cambridge around 12pm. Shah and I used up most of our time visiting most of the colleges in the city centre and snapped lots of pictures. We ended up capturing 185 pics which mostly were of the college buildings. I really liked the architecture of these old buildings coz they have very intricate carvings. Unfortunately we were unable to go inside King's College coz they had to close early due to some concert scheduled for later that day. But we did manage to go into Clare College, Queen's College and Corpus Christi College to have a look around. Queen's College is home to the Mathematical Bridge which is famous for the myth that it was designed by Sir Isaac Newton. However, the truth is that the bridge was designed and built many years after Newton's death. There was one part of the college building which I really liked. The building had interspaced wooden beams on its walls and had a courtyard in the centre.

The weather was quite nice coz it was not too hot and not too cold. However, it was rather clooudy and the sun only decided to shine after 3pm. By that time we had finished taking pictures of most of the colleges. After a late lunch we headed to Cambridge's Museum of Zoology coz Shah really wanted to visit it. Our trip coincided with Cambridge University's Science Festivel so there were many demonstrations on science targeted at children at the New Museum site of the Uni. Shah wished we had more time at the zoology museum coz he wanted to take his time reading everything that was on disply but unfortunately we had to get back to the bus by 5:45pm. So we just took pictures mostly of the skeleton of different animals display. There was a skeleton of the Orca or Killer Whale as well as that of an African Elephant. There was also a skeleton of a Malay Tapir. Anyway, after that we headed to the Sedgewick Museum of Archeology and Anthropoly. It was a rather small museum but it had a display containing a totem pole and a long boat of a indigenous tribe of New Zealand or the islands in that region.

I have to say we had a nice time in Cambrindge even tough it was a short one. At the end of the day we were knackered and our soles hurt like hell. Luckily the bus came on time and it wasn't a surprise that on the way home I slept like a baby. But I woke up after an hour of sleep coz I felt sorry for Shah coz as always Shah never sleeps when travelling. He just can't go to sleep when onboard any kind of transportation. Well, I guess that's it. Till next time..

P/S: Shah has uploaded some of the pictures we took on our fotopages.