Our first stop was the Cambridge McDonalds! It's the swankiest McDonalds I've ever been in. Really large dining room, nice tables. The food tasted the same: homogenization at its pinnacle!
Of course, the prices looked as if they should be in dollars, but were in pounds, so the meal was pretty expensive. This "it could be dollars" situation is quite common, unfortunately. A good bit of advice I received from another American I met, who has been here a year, is: don't do the conversion in your head every time. Just live your life and try to forget about how much it's costing you ... !
Afterwards we hustled over, Happy Meal toys in hand, to visit King's College. Our main activity was to take a tour of the magnificent chapel. Unfortunately, video cameras were not allowed inside, so I have no photos (still hadn't gotten the camera back from the shop yet; photos here are stills from digital video footage). But an interesting event at the start was that we were allowed on the grass, a privilege normally reserved for Fellows of the College.
Afterward we went to St. John's College. It also has a very beautiful chapel, though not on the scale of King's. The bridges over the river are very nice.
The famous one is the Bridge of Sighs, but visitors are not allowed to cross it. (This bridge is not to be confused with the one in Venice, which Tim knew about, and therefore was immediately skeptical that the one at St. Johns was named as I'd said.) Once across the river, they have a beautiful set of buildings adjacent to a large lawn.
I actually stayed in one of these buildings as a guest of one of the (former) Fellows, several years back.
In all I think we walked six miles during our day trip. All of this "exercise as part of daily life" has been adding up -- I've lost 5 pounds since I've been here. All in all, not a bad way to live!
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Mike you lost five pounds?!
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