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More Advice for Future Churchill Scholars (and Other Cambridge Students)

October 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Cambridge, Travelogues

Go to at least one May Ball. If you can, go to one of the two most lavish (Trinity or St. John’s). I’m no fan of pomp and circumstance or throwing down a couple hundred pounds on a party, but there is nothing quite like enjoying an all-night festival of fireworks, food, music, punting, and [...]

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Mid-Year Dispatch from England Part VI – Advice for Future Churchill Scholars (and Other Cambridge Students)

October 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Cambridge, Travelogues

The Pepperpots offer the most consistency in good living – large rooms, private bathrooms, and spacious and modern kitchen and living rooms. The size and quality of the bedrooms and kitchens in the hostels are more variable, while private bathrooms are, to my knowledge, not available. Most also do not, I think, have living rooms. [...]

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Mid-Year Dispatch from England Part V – Life £20 North of the Continent

May 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Cambridge, Travelogues

I recently caught up with a good friend of mine from the States with whom I often hiked in southern California. I told her that I very much missed hiking and regretted the notable lack of contour lines on maps of Cambridge and the surrounding area. She extended her sympathy and asked what I had [...]

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