Cambridge offering a romantic, picture-perfect, and quiet day trip.
Oxford has a more substantial, bustling, and museum-heavy experience along with Harry Potter movie sites.
It was a hard choice . .
Probably should have chosen Oxford, as Cambridge seems still to be stuck in the covid-19 period . . .
Yep, looks good here . . .OK, but not for those ahead . . .again nope😱
Further along the way to The Backs . . .
Seagrass dog ornamentGrey HeronPunts waitingand more . . .and beach side chairs for the summer crowds😱
Note to self, don’t come in summer.
early or late notification?(-b ± √(b² – 4ac)) / 2a bridgeKing’s College ChapelKing’s College BridgeWhy can’t I, if they can?Trinity Hall Porters’ Lodgethat’s as close as can get for free to New Court at St John’s College
You can’t get anywhere unless on a tour, basically £40/person 😱😱😱😱 and then it’s only a walk pass.
Great Gate of Trinity College with founder King Henry VIIIGreat Gate entrance to St John’s CollegeChapel of St John’s CollegeThe Round Church, aka Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Further along . . .
Gonville and Caius CollegeSt Michael’s Church . . .is now Michaelhouse Cafe
at leadt can sneak into St Michael’s Church for a peak before the waitress notices you.
and a bit mor along . . .
Apparently Kings don’t teach students to read!He knows better
Over at . . .
Church of St Mary the Great . . .1698 Father Smith organchancel and high altarYep, depicting the birth of you know who
I’ll skip the buns etc at Fitzbillies . . .
famous Chelsea Buns 🤔🤔🤔🤔and the Blueberry Cheesecake Buns 🤔🤔
Moving along still in a clockwise manner . . .
Barbour waxed cotton jacket owner on a bike with his dogThe Corpus Clock and the Chronophage
and . . .
The Pitt Buildingthe former Emmanuel United Reformed ChurchNew Court of Corpus Christi College
Non of which you can go into the grounds of.
and then there was this . . .
King William III (1650–1702)King George I of Great Britain (reigned 1714–1727)Venus ItalicaCapitoline AntinousSeems William Pitt the Younger is distracted from what the others are looking at🤔
and in the portrait gallery . . .
Sir John Finch (1626–1682)Sir Thomas Baines (1622–1681)An 18th-Century FamilyThe Braddyll Family
and down in the basement is the proudly displayed stolen artefacts . . .
Pharaoh Ramesses IIIPharaoh Ramesses IIIfunerary masks from Roman EgyptMahu and his wife Duat
and presumably not stolen . . .
Meissen porcelain “trompe l’oeil” carp-shaped tureenWally bird by Martin Brothers
all in The Fitzwilliam Museum. Soooo much to see and well worth the cost of £0pp.
Na rathaidean fada, lùbach tro Chuimrigh agus Alba 
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