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A Few Days in Cambridge and London

·Cambridge, United Kingdom·#travel#architecture#london#england#cambridge#punting
Numerous punt boats are docked on a river with a stone bridge, historic buildings, and trees under a clear sky.

Cambridge first, London to follow — the front half of a few days in England. We started at the river, where Scudamore's punts sit rafted together by the dozen near Silver Street, names stenciled on the sterns, cushions out and waiting. Nobody hired us onto one; we took the path along the Cam instead and let the boats thin out behind us.

From the river it was college after college. One court had painted shields mounted over its arched entrance, and later we passed Emmanuel, the clock and cupola sitting above the colonnade like the whole thing was built around telling you the time. In between, a pub garden strung with lights wedged up against a medieval stone church, every bench full on a warm September afternoon.

We ended up on Parker's Piece as the sun went down, the University Arms behind us with its green-blue cupolas. Someone has put a ferris wheel in the middle of the grass, fenced off with white barriers, gondolas empty. A few groups still sitting out on grass gone brown from the summer.

A person walks a paved path beside a canal lined with moored boats, trees, and buildings under a clear blue sky.A stone and stucco building with many windows, arched entrances, and collegiate crests, with flowers in the foreground.People sit at picnic tables on a sunny lawn, with string lights overhead and old stone and brick buildings behind.A large, ornate brick building with many white-framed windows and two turquoise spires under a clear sky, with green grass in the foreground.A large Ferris wheel stands in a grassy park at sunset, with people sitting on the grass and buildings in the background.A stately stone building with a clock tower, weather vane, and arched ground floor under a blue sky.

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