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| Breakfast at Gail's in London
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| We stopped for breakfast at Gail's, a bakery chain. The one near our
apartment has lots of attractive pastries and breads. I'm sad we didn't
have time for me take pictures inside the store.
| Our chocolate croissant was very good. It was a real
croissant--definitely flaky--and had chocolate that was so dark it was a
tad bitter.
| My cinnamon bun. Sweet and very cinnamony, perhaps too much so, but
still good, as you'd expect given that cinnamon buns are made from
croissant dough.
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| Train to Cambridge
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| A sample of the autumn color we saw from the window of our train to
Cambridge.
| We passed many fields, including this field of sheep.
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| Cambridge
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| St Paul's. Not a particularly notable church by Cambridge standards,
but the first thing we passed on our way downtown that was worthy of
photographing.
| We could see the tip of Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church.
| Another perspective. Notice the gargoyle with its tongue sticking out.
| Judge Business School has lovely trees in its courtyard.
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| The Fitzwilliam Museum's entrance for special exhibits.
| The Fitzwilliam Museum's neoclassical entrance for its permanent
collection.
| The ceiling under this grand portico is amazingly intricate, especially
given its area (i.e., the amount of work that must've gone into it).
| Looking up Trumpington St.
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| Peterhouse College's quad, with its typically perfect grass.
| Architecture and flowers along one side of the quad.
| A nice building, still within Peterhouse College.
| The quad in the back is surrounded by a large variety of colorful
plants.
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| Little Saint Mary's, one of the oldest churches in town, looks old and
dirty. One guidebook calls it "almost sadly neglected."
| It's unusual to see gravestones so overgrown. This is in Little Saint
Mary's churchyard.
| Lots of boats for punting near the Silver Street bridge.
| Looking north from the Silver Street bridge, one sees the Mathematical
Bridge over the River Cam. Queen's College is on the right.
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| A courtyard one can see through a fence along King's Lane. Presumably
this is part of King's College.
| A movie of a round, pendulum-based clock, The Corpus Clock,
topped by a insect statue. Funky. If you look closely, you can see the
rapid blue light that tracks seconds and the more stable lights that
track longer lengths of time.
| The accompanying plaque. Especially how old everything else is in
Cambridge, it's surprisingly new.
| The southern most building along King's College.
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| A close-up of one of the upper-story statues.
| King's College's excellent towers in all their glory.
| The towers above the main entrance, also seen in the middle-distance in
the previous photo.
| Excellent. The side of King's College Chapel, seen above the
statue in the center of a large, perfect quad.
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| A panoramic video of King's College main gate, the chapel, and the quad.
| A bigger quad in back of the college. Thank the guy at right on the
riding motor for the pristine appearance of these fields.
| Autumn colors as we approach King's College's bridge over the River Cam.
| Looking back, toward the front of King's College Chapel.
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| From the aforementioned bridge, looking north along the River Cam. The
bridge and building to the right are associated with Clare College.
Notice the people punting. Perhaps excellent.
| The same shot, just zoomed in on the bridge. Now you see another bridge
behind this one. Definitely excellent for its fall foliage.
| Looking south from the same place, one can see a King's College's dorm
and, in the distance, Queen's College's Mathematical Bridge (which I previously photographed).
| Walking down a trail on the opposite side of the River Cam from the
colleges. (This is along the path leading from King's College to
Queen's Road.)
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