Thursday, April 29, 2010

For the record

Things to do:
  • Keep a photoblog
  • See all the sciencey stained glass windows
    • DNA, Venn diagram, neuron (Gonville & Caius dining hall)
    • Cross-section of plant stem (Pembroke library)
  • Get a Pembroke College scarf
  • Walk over these bridges:
    • Mathematical Bridge
    • Clare College Bridge
    • Bridge of Sighs
  • Go punting on the Cam
  • Go pub crawling at least once (probably during Freshers' Week)
  • Take up fencing again at the CU Fencing Club
    • Fight Oxford at the Varsity competition
  • Publish an article in the Cambridge TTH
  • Visit Nicole/William/Luis at Oxford
  • Visit Marie at UCL
  • Visit Caitlin at King's College London
  • Guy Fawkes Night fireworks and bonfire
  • Attend evensong choir at Trinity College chapel
  • Attend the Boat Race between Cambridge and Oxford can't go because I'll be in Europe
  • Volunteer-bake at the Cafe Project
  • Strawberries and champagne on a punt, at sunset
Places to go:
  • The Eagle pub
  • University Museum of Zoology
  • Whipple Museum of the History of Science 
  • Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Cambridge University Botanic Garden
  • Visit as many coffee/tea shops as possible
  • Ely
    • French market
    • Ely Cathedral
  • Fitzbillies Bakery (52 Trumpington CB2 1RG)
  • The top of St. John’s Tower (the highest vantage point in Cambridge)

  • All the UK tourist spots (London, Stonehenge, etc.)
Eat these foods:
  • Scones and clotted cream
  • Jellied eel
  • British/European candies and chocolates
  • Yorkshire pudding
  • Treacle tart got five-pennied for this one
  • Chelsea buns (from Fitzbillies) 
  • Huntingdon fidget pie
  • Scotch pie (in Scotland)
  • Stargazey pie
  • Eccles cake

2 comments:

  1. I'm especially looking forward to the jellied eel =) send me a post card!!

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