Cambridge

Today we toured Cambridge University. Interestingly, instead of having one designated campus, the buildings are interspersed throughout the town. So you might say we did a bit of walking today! Cambridge University is very, very old- its first buildings were built around 1020 AD. It actually began as a school for 14 year old boys who were studying to become priests. Now there are about 18,000 students enrolled.

This is the Corpus Clock: a million-pound clock invented by one of the professors at Cambridge. -And when I say pounds, I mean money :P

After our walking tour we toured the back of Cambridge via "punting". A punt is a long, flat boat; it works a lot like a gondola. It was so fun to float down the river in these cute little boats!

For dinner, Averyl and I went to South Kensington to get fish and chips. So yummy! Then we went to Covent Garden Market in search of gelato. We went to the Ice Creamists- I don't think what we got was gelato, but boy was it good. I guess that means we'll just have to go back again. Poor us!

Hopefully I can come back to Covent Garden- tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Ireland for a few days, then we'll come back to London for one more day. And while we're in Ireland, I'm leaving most of my stuff in our flat in London, which means I probably won't bring my laptop, which means I won't be blogging until I get back on Monday or Tuesday.

Tomorrow I'm leaving at 5 AM for Ireland! I'm super excited but I'm not looking forward to such an early start!