Cambridge

Being a tourist in UK is amazing. Sometimes you think you are living in a tale. Here you realize why they like Harry Potter and this kind of things so much. And it is because UK looks like a tale. The buildings, the countryside, the cloudy and foggy days even the people looks like a tale. This weekend I went to one of the most beautiful places to let your mind flies away: CAMBRIDGE.

My journey was quite stressing, the train was too hot and full of people. I had all my stuff stored on me, I almost couldn’t see over them. It was raining in London and it was raining in Cambridge. There are so many different kinds of rain here… the showers can get you wet within a minute, what I say! Within less than a minute! Then there is a regular rain, that means that you can use your umbrella and it will be useful (not with showers not with misty rain). And finally you have “misty rain”… It seems is not raining, it’s more to use the umbrella is senseless, you don’t really know if it is raining or it’s foggy. You get confident and walk under the rain for long… after 5 minutes, without realizing, you are completely wet and cross your fingers for not being hopelessly sick.

The first thing I did was to buy a hot black Americano coffee (anyway it was too late to avoid the sickness). Fortunately, a friend of mine was waiting for me outside the coffee shop and my day changed for the better.

Walking through Cambridge is amazing, I was thinking I have forgotten my Hogwarts coat and scarf. The colleges are so beautiful. Every building is astonishing. We visited several colleges, maybe one of the most beautiful ones is the King’s colleges.

To study in Cambridge you have to apply to the university and also being accepted in one of the colleges, which is difficult. If some of the members of your family had already studied there it will be easier for you. In addition, it is expensive. During the first year is compulsory to live in it and sometimes (at least I saw how they prepared one) they have “special dinners” where the students get dressed quite good and wear the university coat and so on. Believe me, it was like Harry Potter.

Some of the colleges have their own ghost stories, the one that likes me the most was the lovers’ couple. It is supposed that there was a time where a student (of high class) fell in love with one of the workers of the college (a young lad). As her father works at the college they had to hidden their love. One Christmas time they were saying goodbye to each other in hers room, but her father knocked on the door. He hid into the wardrobe and she locked it in order her father not to find him. But she didn’t have the chance to re-open in and he died there. When she came back from holidays and discovered the disaster she committed suicide. And it is said that you can see the ghosts of the couple walking together hand on hand along the gardens and corridors of the college.

In addition to the colleges, Cambridge has a nice square and some beautiful streets. It is also known for being the place where the DNA was discovered. It was and is a cluster of brilliant brains (Darwin, Newton, Stephen Hawking..) and that’s why so many interesting thing have happened there.

If you are interested in DNA and this kind of things it is nice to go to the pub where Crick and Watson used to go after work. This pub was also used by the air force and there is a part of it where you can see a lot of stickers of the air force. Of course, this place also has their own ghost history. From outside if you look up, you will see a small not renewed window always open. In the past there was a fire in the pub, everything was ruined, and the daughter of the owner died in the room where the window is open because she couldn’t open it to scape (it was blocked). Since then the window has been open to let her spirt to go. However, they close it three times…and each time they closed it, there was a fire.

They are only tales… but they are nice.

It also has one of the rarest clocks in the world. It can be seen as an allegory to “carpe diem” because it has an awful bug “eating” the time.

The last thing I did in Cambridge was to go to the anthropological museum (recently open). Of course it is free and if you have an hour and want to be warm and dry, go.