This is a travel blog for my trip to the UK, where I will be studying literature for two weeks at Cambridge University. Please leave any comments or thoughts you have for each post, I'd love to hear from everyone who reads this! Sincerely, Jema Rose
Friday, 6 July 2012
Day Two - In and around Cambridge city centre
I slept for fourteen hours last night. When I woke up I felt like I could sleep even longer, but I made myself get up and have breakfast downstairs, which consisted of a croissant, a cup of tea, a large cup of orange juice, porridge with yoghurt, and some fruit. Half way through I realised I didn't have dinner the night before, oops!
I braved public transport on Milton Rd to get into the city where I immediately walked past a Starbucks and had to go in.
For those of you unlucky enough to be Starbucks virgins: it's like a really really good version of Dome, but way more awesome :P
I had a tall special hot chocolate with cream on top :D
Starbucks is awesome :)
But enough about Starbucks.
After Starbucks I found myself on St Andrew's Rd, which is a main road in the centre of Cambridge. I walked around the city centre, had a look in some clothes shops, bought some fudge.
Yes, this is one slice of fudge, minus a bite that I had in the shop :D it tastes amazing, this one is plain vanilla.
I walked past St Catharine's College, where I will be staying from Sunday.
Looks gorgeous, can't wait to stay there :)
I had lunch at Giraffe cafe - I ate at their cafe near the London Eye in 2006 when my auntie first brought me to Europe. It's an incredible cafe; if their food were a genre it would be World! Hot dogs, enchiladas, burgers, coconut encrusted shrimp, nachos, fruit smoothies, hot fudge brownies with home made ice cream, heaps of different cocktails - yet another awesome brand that we don't have in Australia.
My delicious hot dog with chow chow onions, slaw and chips :D
Other photos from around Cambridge:
Everyone cycles here - the cyclists are fearless and hardly ever get run over :S
University of Cambridge Press book shop :D
Cardboard cut-outs of the Queen, and Prince William and Cate outside the Cambridge tourist centre, in case you want a photo with them :P
A huge medieval door.
Another huge medieval door with scary barbed wire over it.
From the plane
Photos from the day I set off, plus some on the planes on the journey here.
Flight no. 1 to Singapore - this is at Perth airport.
Flight no. 2 to Heathrow, London - this is somewhere over the Ukraine before dawn.
Breakfast on an airplane - ten points if you can guess what all items on the tray are :P
Dawn has broken - somewhere over Poland or Germany. At one point I could see lightning flashing inside the clouds below us.
Packing!
The day I started packing:
After several hours it became this:
The Jemima doll from Playschool is my mascot on this trip ;)
After several hours it became this:
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