And I went to Cambridge. My UNC friend Tida is studying Shakespeare there and I got to hang out with her for two days!
The first night we ate dinner at a restaurant named Carluccio's. Both of us were starving, but thankfully, the meal there only took THREE HOURS.
Our waiter was presumed dead multiple times.
The next morning began with a stomach ache for Tida and four hours of sleep for me. Not the best combination.
Add to that spastic weather (raining one second, sunburn the next) and you've an eventful day.
Tida had done some shopping (I was not surprised) and needed to return some clothes, so we hit up the stores.
Then we wandered around an open air market that sets up in the square every day and followed that with lunch, for me. Both of our eating schedules were off, so when I ate breakfast, an hour later she ate a croissant. I ate a cornish pasty, then two hours later she ate an ice cream cone. Eventually out of exhaustion (from walking and weather) we had tea together and from tea walked straight to dinner.
It wasn't... the healthiest day.
After shopping, it began to pour rain and we found shelter in a store called Cathy Kidston. Here is the video that ensued:
Tida persuaded me into going on a tour of King's College. I wasn't that interested because my knees hurt (at that time I'd been walking for, oh, six weeks) but went along with her. Props to Tida, it was beautiful.
Honestly, though? I prefer Carolina.
Tida had been carrying her shopping around with her all day, and when the rain hit her poor bag didn't stand a chance. A moment of silence for the remains:
After dinner I went to Selwyn College, where she's studying:
Someone didn't get their mail.
After Selwyn, I went to Tida's dorm and met one of her fellow Cambridge mates on the stairs and then caught a taxi back to my hostel, where I slept. It was marvelous.
And that was Cambridge!
-B
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