January 13, 2007

January 12: Cambridge




The Eagle in Cambridge: Friday 1:28 pm GMT

Vanessa dropped us off at an internet cafe this morning and I had a tea. Rob asked for a latte but what he got was the size of a cappaccino.

We walked around for a bit looking in thrift shops. Then we moved on toward the colleges, mostly just looking around and snapping photos. We plan to head back at 3 so we decided to stop for a leisurely beer at the Eagle. (We would have stopped somewhere else but we didn’t see anywhere else and came across this so we stopped.)

CB2 Bistro: Saturday 12:50 pm GMT

We walked back to Histon from Cambridge, which turned out to be almost an hour and a half walk. We got back just in time for popcorn and a movie (“Catch That Kid”) which we watched with Vanessa and the kids. Then Vanessa made dinner while Rob got a kick out of the kids’ slang (particularly the word manky meaning something along the lines of gross or ooey).

Dinner was spaghetti and salad and Ness made a batch of sauce for me without meat. :-) It was really good and was followed up with some homemade cinnamon rolls. Can’t beat that. We hung out and talked for a bit more and then hit the hay.

-- I’m making two photo albums for today. I took several pictures of the kids but I don’t want to post them to “everybody.” So if you’re a friend of Nessa’s and want to see the pics, let me know and I’ll send you an email key. --

21 comments:

  1. Such character! How wide is the street? It looks really narrow...

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  2. You'd be grumpy too if you had to stand on such a tiny platform for hundreds of years.

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  3. the street was only one lane wide. i don't know how many feet wide that is, but it was about the same width as one of our lanes. ... we just usually have more than one lane across.

    this had sidewalk on either side. there were several places with no sidewalks, just the road. it felt very european. ;-)

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  4. Did you get a chance to go inside one of those colleges? The interior is something you may have seen in TV but seeing it with your own eyes is something else.

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  5. They all have "no visitor" signs. :-( So we just leer in through the metal gates.

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  6. You should have grabbed some textbooks and a notebook and said you're a life long education student... :D

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  7. "...only 100 or so years old." Nice. :) I can't wait till the day we go to Ireland and England and visit places like that, with more history than here.

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  8. That's a gorgeous building. Do you know what it was?

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  9. we'll be touring this on wednesday, so then you'll get the full scoop. :-)

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  10. now if i had seen hawking don't you think i would have jumped up and down and hooted and hollered and Told you all that i saw him?

    no. didn't see him.

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  11. When I worked for Rapix and was going to Princeton regularly, one thing I kept hoping for was to run into Dr. Nash. But, it never happened... :-/

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  12. But would Dr. Nash have acknowledged your existence? :)

    Aloha mai Nai`a, who has the DVD, and wasn't sure what exactly was going on until he ran out in front of the car and said, "She never ages!"

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  13. Hehe, maybe. I'm kind of dream-like in person, anyways... :D

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  14. I've seen Prof Stephen Hawking, you mean the one who wrote The Origins of the Universe or something like that [I did read it, I've just forgotten what it is called now.] I was a bit peeved that he seemed to think that just because he had "proved"mathematically that the universe was finite that it meant that God didn't exist. He should stick to his own subject. In fact whether the universe is finite or infinite doesn't prove or disprove the existence of God, because God could make any kind of universe he might please. The best place to find him is in the Graduate Centre. I was there once w/my kids one one of them, who was about five at the time nearly tripped over him and his wheelchair!

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