Trip to Cambridge
Last week end on 28th Nov 2004 we had been to Cambridge. The trip was good everyone enjoyed it. The trip started like this.
On Friday night we decided that we will go for a one day Cambridge trip. Our pandya (sudheer) booked the tickets on Friday evening. We decided that everyone will meet up at the tube station at 6.30 sharp. Me and harsha from Cleveland hotel, pandya, sir (uday) and mama (subash) from their house. Saturday was my last day in the hotel so I had to pack up everything and move out of the room in the morning itself, although I had shifted my big suitcase previous night itself, I still had some stuff left to pack and move it. Woke up at 5.30 and started getting ready. As I was packing harsha came at 6.20 sharp, I still was packing it took another 10 min. once packing was done I put everything in harsha’s room and we left for tube station. We reached there at 6.45 15 min late J. Others had come there at 6.30 itself. It almost takes 1 - 1.15 hours to reach the bus station form our place and our bus was at 8.30. We got a train at 7 and everyone were blaming us as in me and harsha for coming late. But then I was optimistic and was telling everybody that we will reach the bus station in time. As I said we reached the bustation on time and our buses was waiting for us. We boarded the bus. Since I dint have any sleep the previous night, got into the bus and slept, the next I woke up was when we were close to Cambridge town.
We reached Cambridge at 10.25. I thought the bus would be stopping at a proper bus station, but it stopped at a rather small gully kind of place. Everyone started getting down, I thought this might some intermediate stop and told everybody that the bus might go invent further. In a few min the bus was almost empty, so I though that might be the bus stand and we got down. Turns out that is the bus station, I got to know only while returning back. All of us got down and the weather was very cold there but sunny. We started walking towards a busy street, this street lead us to a market place. We saw a map on the wall, and we found a information centre close by and all of us went there. We spent around 30 min at the information centre to enquire what all place we can watch. They gave us a map and a list of place that are worth watching.
From there the first place we went was to The Great St Mary’s church. It was a very old church and it had a tower from where we could see the whole of Cambridge. To climb that tower we had to pay some entrance fee and we all climbed the tower. The view from the tower was breath taking. Most of the named colleges of the university could be seen from here. We took a lot of snaps and sir took video from his camcorder. Sir was very much interested in seeing the king’s college, and the lady at the information centre had told that King’s college would be closed at 2.00 pm. It was 12 by the time we came down the tower, when we came down the tower in the church there was this English classical sing going on, we watched it for 5 10 min and headed to king’s college. King’s college is a very beautiful college, it has a huge chapel and the college has great buildings. From there we went few more colleges like Clare college, Trinity college and St’ John’s college. Trinity College is the most wealthiest college in Cambridge and its awesome, after see this college I felt like I should have studied at least a small one semester course here. St’ john’s college is just next to Trinity College and they both are arch rivals. St’ John’s also has some marvellous buildings, we heard some of the seans from Harry Potter were shot here.
By the time we had seen the colleges everyone was hungry and we went in search of Pizza hut. We started walking and asked a boat guy, he said we were completely in the opposite direction of the place, so we took a right about turn and went to pizza hut which was .5 km far. There was a huge queue for pizza hut and the queue had come out of the place on to the footpath. We waited in the queue for about 45 min and entered the place. Man I have to tell u guys some thing the girls in Cambridge are too good. We had our lunch and by the time we came out it was 3.15, and it had already started to get dark. We went to the boat guy again he had given as some discount on the boat ride. So we took the boat tour, it was a good experience. The boats are called as punting and the punter gave us some history lesson of the place and took around different college and gave there history behind it. Punting took almost an hour, by the time we got down it was pretty much dark and the weather was chilling. So we went in to a French coffee shop and had some coffee, it was too good after leaving India this was the first time I had a decent cup of coffee.
From there we head back to the so called bus station which was at 7 pm. So we went the around 6.30 and waited of the bus. While waiting at the bus stand the was a cute figure in front of us, we were hoping she would come and sit beside us, but unfortunately she dint have a reserved ticket. She had to wait outside until all the reserved ticket ppl boarded the bus. After that since there was still seat remaining the driver gave her one ticket. She came and sat behind us. Once the bus started we all slept and the next thing we know we were in London.
All in all the trip was good. The best part of the trip was we saw a lot of good looking girls, and good looking buildings. If u have read till here then I will be uploading the snaps in couples of days.
On Friday night we decided that we will go for a one day Cambridge trip. Our pandya (sudheer) booked the tickets on Friday evening. We decided that everyone will meet up at the tube station at 6.30 sharp. Me and harsha from Cleveland hotel, pandya, sir (uday) and mama (subash) from their house. Saturday was my last day in the hotel so I had to pack up everything and move out of the room in the morning itself, although I had shifted my big suitcase previous night itself, I still had some stuff left to pack and move it. Woke up at 5.30 and started getting ready. As I was packing harsha came at 6.20 sharp, I still was packing it took another 10 min. once packing was done I put everything in harsha’s room and we left for tube station. We reached there at 6.45 15 min late J. Others had come there at 6.30 itself. It almost takes 1 - 1.15 hours to reach the bus station form our place and our bus was at 8.30. We got a train at 7 and everyone were blaming us as in me and harsha for coming late. But then I was optimistic and was telling everybody that we will reach the bus station in time. As I said we reached the bustation on time and our buses was waiting for us. We boarded the bus. Since I dint have any sleep the previous night, got into the bus and slept, the next I woke up was when we were close to Cambridge town.
We reached Cambridge at 10.25. I thought the bus would be stopping at a proper bus station, but it stopped at a rather small gully kind of place. Everyone started getting down, I thought this might some intermediate stop and told everybody that the bus might go invent further. In a few min the bus was almost empty, so I though that might be the bus stand and we got down. Turns out that is the bus station, I got to know only while returning back. All of us got down and the weather was very cold there but sunny. We started walking towards a busy street, this street lead us to a market place. We saw a map on the wall, and we found a information centre close by and all of us went there. We spent around 30 min at the information centre to enquire what all place we can watch. They gave us a map and a list of place that are worth watching.
From there the first place we went was to The Great St Mary’s church. It was a very old church and it had a tower from where we could see the whole of Cambridge. To climb that tower we had to pay some entrance fee and we all climbed the tower. The view from the tower was breath taking. Most of the named colleges of the university could be seen from here. We took a lot of snaps and sir took video from his camcorder. Sir was very much interested in seeing the king’s college, and the lady at the information centre had told that King’s college would be closed at 2.00 pm. It was 12 by the time we came down the tower, when we came down the tower in the church there was this English classical sing going on, we watched it for 5 10 min and headed to king’s college. King’s college is a very beautiful college, it has a huge chapel and the college has great buildings. From there we went few more colleges like Clare college, Trinity college and St’ John’s college. Trinity College is the most wealthiest college in Cambridge and its awesome, after see this college I felt like I should have studied at least a small one semester course here. St’ john’s college is just next to Trinity College and they both are arch rivals. St’ John’s also has some marvellous buildings, we heard some of the seans from Harry Potter were shot here.
By the time we had seen the colleges everyone was hungry and we went in search of Pizza hut. We started walking and asked a boat guy, he said we were completely in the opposite direction of the place, so we took a right about turn and went to pizza hut which was .5 km far. There was a huge queue for pizza hut and the queue had come out of the place on to the footpath. We waited in the queue for about 45 min and entered the place. Man I have to tell u guys some thing the girls in Cambridge are too good. We had our lunch and by the time we came out it was 3.15, and it had already started to get dark. We went to the boat guy again he had given as some discount on the boat ride. So we took the boat tour, it was a good experience. The boats are called as punting and the punter gave us some history lesson of the place and took around different college and gave there history behind it. Punting took almost an hour, by the time we got down it was pretty much dark and the weather was chilling. So we went in to a French coffee shop and had some coffee, it was too good after leaving India this was the first time I had a decent cup of coffee.
From there we head back to the so called bus station which was at 7 pm. So we went the around 6.30 and waited of the bus. While waiting at the bus stand the was a cute figure in front of us, we were hoping she would come and sit beside us, but unfortunately she dint have a reserved ticket. She had to wait outside until all the reserved ticket ppl boarded the bus. After that since there was still seat remaining the driver gave her one ticket. She came and sat behind us. Once the bus started we all slept and the next thing we know we were in London.
All in all the trip was good. The best part of the trip was we saw a lot of good looking girls, and good looking buildings. If u have read till here then I will be uploading the snaps in couples of days.
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