Cambridge, the University Town

CAMBRIDGE ♥    21 July 2012

Nice weather !

A little bit hot ? The real summer in UK :)
Oh noooo, how am I gonna survive in Malaysia ? The weather in Malaysia is way hotter than UK :( 

Another Saturday day trip to Cambridge with Hallam Union.

It took us 3 hours plus to reach Cambridge from Sheffield ! The coach driver stopped at a service centre for a 20 mins toilet break !

Cambridge is most widely known as the home of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1209 and consistently ranked one of the top 5 universities in the world. Cambridge University has 31 colleges, with the best-known college founded in 1441-King's College. 

Cambridge is awesome with all the beautiful majestic and architecture college buildings scattered all around in the city ! Many of the older colleges have peaceful gardens backing into river Cam, known as 'Backs'. Hence, punting at the river Cam is relaxing and fun especially in the nice sunny weather. It is a relaxing way to tour Cambridge !

When we reached Cambridge, we straight away booked our punting tour with the agent !
However, it was so crowded in Cambridge and a lot of people booked the punting tour before us ! We could only go for punting at 430pm ! The punting tour would take approximately 45 mins ! Hence, we thought that it would be possible for us to go for punting before we board the coach at 545pm !

When we went there at 430pm, we couldn't go for punting !!!!!!

This was because the previous punting tours took more than 45 mins and every tour delayed !
The agent apologized and told us that we could only go for punting around 5pm and the tour might take around 1 hour !!!

Hence, we didn't get to go for punting :'( 

How awesome would it be if we could go for punting !!!!!!

The only regret on that day :(

We planned to visit Trinity College and King's College !
Then we saw an Art & Craft Market at Trinity Street ! So we decided to shop for a while :)
You could see a lot of special and artistic stuffs there !
So lovely ♥

Li Sin got herself an unique chop ! Really very nice !

Diary

Then we found Trinity College ! But it was closed on that day, we couldn't visit the college :(
So sad !

Trinity is one of Cambridge University's three royal colleges, along with King's and St John's. In the 20th century, members of Trinity won 31 Nobel Prizes of the 75 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college !!! 

Outside Trinity College

It was so crowded in Cambridge ! 
When we saw King's College, then only we knew that there was graduation ceremony going on in King's College !!!
That's why we saw people were in their robe when we were walking around in Cambridge !

I could imagine that how proud would the graduates' parents be !!!
" Hello, my son/daughter graduated from King's College !!! " 
However, I think that every parents will be proud of their son/daughter no matter where they graduate from :)

We had our lunch outside King's College.
We thought we would not be able to visit the college anymore but in fact we could !!! :)
Happy !

Fong Yee, Jack & Yu En with the King's College graduates ! 

Yu En , Jack & Fong Yee with their lunch box !

OMG ! The street performer sang in the dustbin ! 

We paid £5 (student price) to visit King's College ! 
We could only visit the King's Chapel and walked around the compound ! 
I thought that we could visit the lecture room or the seminar room or library, but no :(
Or maybe there was a private event (graduation ceremony) going on so we didn't get to go inside ?

King's was founded in 1441 by Henry VI. The building of the college's chapel, begun in 1446, was finally finished in 1544 during the reign of Henry VIII. It took 98 years to build the chapel !!! Wow !!! 
The King's chapel is regarded as one of the greatest examples of late Gothic English architecture !!
I was so lucky to be able to visit King's college and the chapel !

Inside King's chapel 

King's College 

Flat 44 girls :)
It was so sunny !

A famous poem written on by 徐志摩

Then we visited Fitzwilliam Museum !
It is one of Britain's earliest public museums.
The present collections contain: Western European paintings; Egytian, Western Asiatic, Greek and Roman antiquities and many more ! Read more about the museum here 

As all of us couldn't go for punting, then we sat along the river and enjoyed the weather !
But with all the sad faces ! :(

Cambridge is really beautiful and there's a real sense of living history almost everywhere you look ! 
I could see colleges in Cambridge after few steps ! The university and its 31 colleges dominate the centre with atmospheric cobbled courts, chapels, gardens and bridges !!! 

Really love the culture here ♥
Had a relaxing and lovely Saturday in Cambridge :) 




Costs : 
Hallam Union - £14
King's College entrance fees - £5