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.
My room at the Arbury Lodge:




Cute things on Arbury Rd

Cute signs, houses etc on Arbury Rd








The guest house that I'm staying at, very nice place :-)

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 ;)