Part 2 of England included going up to visit Dan Dan for a day! It was one of the highlights of the trip (but since the whole trip was a big highlight, that just means that it was so great!)
I took a train up from London, and when I got in Dan and I went to "breakfast" where we ate the traditional beans, sausage, and bacon English breakfast. It was great. On our way, we walked past this fun little building. Yep, this is where the idea for the Double Helix in DNA was thought up. It's just a little pub type restaurant. But it was here that the "guys" came and were talking about it all, and the idea just hit them. Or something like that...
Dan took me around a lot of the different colleges in Cambridge, and it was amazing. The colleges are each so unique, and yet somehow similar. Maybe that's because they are all about 3000 years old. Okay, not that old, but really...the University dates back to the 12 or 13 hundreds. The New World hadn't even been discovered by the European continent yet. Crazy!
Dan was really nice to take so many pictures of me!
Same bridge, opposite side.
This is the Bridge of Sighs. It's named after the bridge in Venice where legend says that prisoners would sigh as they crossed before being executed. I'm pretty sure no one was executed after crossing this bridge...but I have been known to be wrong.
This is (I think) King's College. Sorry if I'm wrong Dan. Please correct me!
I just love all of the amazing architecture. It makes me wish that I actually knew something about it...
C.S. Lewis was mostly an Oxford man, but he did spend some time up in Cambridge. This is where he would have been when he was in Cambridge, and I, of course, had to get a picture of it because it's C.S. Lewis!
One of the highlights of the Cambridge trip was getting to play croquet on one of the Greens at Pembroke College with the BYU study abroad students. It was so much fun, and seriously...who wouldn't want to play croquet in England!?
I was a total pro!
The English definitely know their gardening. The roses were amazing...just like everything else that had to do with gardens.
It's a good thing I remembered at the last second that I needed a picture with Dan Dan. That could have been bad! This is us standing in front of the oldest Bowling Green in Europe (which in my opinion probably means the entire world because, let's be honest, where else do they even have Bowling Greens?) However, we weren't allowed to even walk on it...it's only for the Fellows (teachers).
Other highlights of the Cambridge trip - in no particular order:
1. Eating in the Great Hall (AKA King's College dining hall)
2. Listening to a lecture by Sir Richard Dearlove who was head of MI6 (British spies) for a number of years, and who was a spy himself during the Cold War. It was aWeSoMe!
3. Drinking tea with Dan in the Graduate Lounge in Pembroke College
4. Listening to a high school choir sing an Evensong in one of the beautiful churches in Cambridge.
5. Sitting by the River Cam watching all of the tourists punt up and down. It was quite comical, actually!
2. Listening to a lecture by Sir Richard Dearlove who was head of MI6 (British spies) for a number of years, and who was a spy himself during the Cold War. It was aWeSoMe!
3. Drinking tea with Dan in the Graduate Lounge in Pembroke College
4. Listening to a high school choir sing an Evensong in one of the beautiful churches in Cambridge.
5. Sitting by the River Cam watching all of the tourists punt up and down. It was quite comical, actually!
One regret: Not punting in the River Cam. Next time I guess.
The whole trip was amazing! Thanks for a great time Dan!
2 comments:
Ah, that brings back good summer memories. Thanks for posting this! That was a fun day.
Actually, that picture is of St. John's college, which is where we heard that amazing Eton College choir's evensong. They were so good! It's probably the first time I didn't fall asleep at an evensong.
I guess you owe me a tour around DC sometime?
Wow- sounds like such a fun trip! I'm glad you and Dan were able to meet up and see where he spends his time!
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