Though the above thought keeps on playing on my mind with respect to Sahasra, it had no bearing on why we went to Cambridge on a weekend. We were interested in knowing of a place which has featured in various movies and novels as one of the most sought after place to study, along with us wanting to spend a day outside London to view the countryside.
It was an hour's journey from London by train. Appa found the journey somewhat similar to his numerous train journeys in India and was enjoying his stroll in the intermediate stations much to Amma's despair.
From the station it was around one and half mile walk to the Town Centre where all the main activities / shopping centre are present.
The main attraction in cambridge is a Punting tour, with a guide across all the important colleges within the town. Though we could have taken a boat for ourselves and did the punting, but none of us where confident enough on each other's punting skill. Moreover none of us knew swimming.
From the boat we could see a glimpse of most of the beautiful colleges within Cambridge. No wonder, students from all across the world aspire to be a part of the university
Post the Punting tour we had our lunch break, wherein we had our regular Puliyogarai and Thayir sadam and Appa had his afternoon nap.
Post Lunch, we travelled through the streets of Cambridge which very much reminded me of Gali's in Kashi, though a much cleaner Kashi.
I and Purnima visited King's Chapel, a very famous chapel built alongside the King's College. Amma and Appa were very tired of the walk and rested outside with Sahasra for company.
A view of King's College.....
And then we returned to our three mile walk back to station (extra miles because I took a wrong route back to station :-))
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An interesting comparison - of Cambridge's cobbled lanes with the galies of Kashi.Both towns are weighed down in history;have streets where every stone has a story to tell.
Maybe, we could do with a picture of a Banares galie.
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