Tag: Cambridge
History Bite: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
In case you didn’t know, Cambridge is chock full of museums. Completely lousy with them, in fact. When most of your buildings are at least 100 years old, I suppose that will happen. And as I learned while walking about Cambridge, you don’t always know […]
5 Tips for Punting in Cambridge
I know that the thing to do in Cambridge and Oxford is to go punting, but I wasn’t overly set on it. However, our Air BnB host was absolutely amazing, and she highly recommended going punting, as I would get to see many of the […]
History Bite: The Gate of Honour, Caius College
One of the best parts of somewhere like Cambridge is that you are forever tripping over another piece of history, no matter where you are. And a lot of the time, you don’t know its importance until afterwards. Each college has its own story and […]
History Bite: Bridge of Sighs, University of Cambridge
There are several different versions of the Bridge of Sighs that you can see around Europe (and probably further). And there are countless bridges that you can discover in Cambridge itself. (Okay, by countless I mean 25, but given the size of Cambridge, that is […]
History Bite: The Round Church in Cambridge
As you could imagine, Cambridge is lousy with chapels and churches. I know many people that get bored very quickly with seeing churches, but I could visit every church I come across and be quite the happy historian. (I would love a map of just […]





