Tourist for a Day

This weekend, I took advantage of the end of Freshers' Week to become a tourist for a day in Cambridge, my city home. My college MCR sponsored free professional tours of the city, stopping at the "Big-Three" colleges (King's, Trinity and St. John's), Newton's apple tree and an (unadvertised) stop for free samples at the fudge shoppe across the street from the Senate House .

One of the nicest things, by far, about our tour was the fact that the tour guide tailored it to us and made it more of a 'taster' (with loads of ideas for later visits) than a self-contained tour. That being said, we saw quite a bit for the two hours we spent wandering around near the market square, including a lovely fan-vaulted ceiling in Kings' College Chapel (serenaded by organ and choir practice (although it wasn't the Kings' Choir)), the wonderfully ridiculous Corpus Clock (You-tube: The Corpus Clock and Chronophage, the tour guide unintentionally narrating part of this home video led the other half of the MCR members who turned up for the tour) and St. John's Bridge of Sighs.

Fan vaults over the organ in King's College Chapel (of the Lessons and Carols fame)

Bridge of Sighs over the Cam at St. John's