05/30/26 - 11 miles in Cambridge

On the first day of our British Life in Business class, our instructor, Mr. Graham Bolton, gave us one motto to live by during our time here: Learn By Wandering Around (LBWA). 

Safe to say Cambridge was a perfect example of this approach. 

We walked 25,000 steps across the city, hitting 11 miles on our trip. The campus was gorgeous and sprawling, just like Oxford. 

My favorite part of exploring was pretending to be prospective students so we could walk into the gated colleges. Each had a unique architectural style and precious little gardens.

 

     


The Backs felt like a fairytale. Little bridges connected flower gardens across the river, and weeping willows draped over the water, brushing the punts passing underneath.


 

 

We stopped at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, which had some impressive fossil collections.

Snapped a picture of the Corpus Clock! 


We saw some beautiful churches, including the famous King's College Chapel, thanks to a local who tipped us off about a free service being held there that evening. None of us had ever attended a Church of England service before. The children's choir sang, and it was interesting to compare it to my experience growing up Catholic. 





Cambridge Market gave us plenty of options for lunch. It was hard to choose, but I eventually got a delicious stuffed arepa from Arepa's Station. 


I bet you can't guess what we had for dessert :)








Love,
Megan

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