This weeks travel

So this weekend is the first week since January 9th that I haven't gone anywhere... Didn't feel like sitting at home all day, so I decided to travel to..............Cambridge! Feel like I've traveled all over the UK, doing tourist stuff, but still haven't seen so much of my own city, so Helene and I decided to be tourists in Cambridge! We started with riding our bikes along the beautiful Cam river.. Stopped a ways up the river and watched all the university boys rowing by...Rowing is very popular here, so we saw at least 20 boats..  Then we walked up to the marked place in town and walked trough all the stalls selling everything from muffins to mirrors. Bought  me another Cambridge University sweater and a book to read this summer. We ate lunch and then we went up the tower of St. Mary's church and we got a great view across all of Cambridge. Took a few pictures up there and then went down again and took the Cambridge sightseeing bus. That was a lot of fun. I've pretty much seen all the places the bus stopped at, but learned a lot about the city from the audio tour guide. Did you know that the official soccer rules were written down in Parker's Piece in Cambridge? It's a park in the middle of town, and many years ago there were so many different rules of soccer everywhere, so some teachers from the universities gathered in the park to write down and agree on the official rules. The official length that should be between the goal posts was decided by measuring the lenght between two threes in the park, and that measurement is still used world wide today as well as the rules! I thought that was pretty cool! After the bus tour we finished off with buying some Cambridge souvenirs and just walking around taking pictures of everything really.   And of course took the typical telephone box picture
It was a beautiful day and the sun was shining. Oh how I love my city <3

Parkers Piece

The mathematical bridge. 

It is said that Sir Isac Newton designed and built it without the use of nuts and bolts back in the 1700's. One time some students of the University attempted to take the bridge apart and try to put it back together, but the could not figure out how to do it, so in the end they had to use nuts and bolts to hold the structure together..