Starting off in the centre of town at King's College.
Going next door to the Senate House (white building on the left where students graduate) and Gonville & Caius College (known for its night climbers - boys who didn't make it back in time for curfew and had to scale the building to enter through a window).
This is the entrance to Trinity College. Notice King Henry holding a chair leg instead of his staff. Apparently the students put all things in his hand, and recently he was holding a bicycle pump.
Sir Isaac Newton is the most famous graduate of Cambridge University. Here's an infertile apple tree outside Trinity College that's an actual descendant from the famous tree at his house in Lincolnshire.
Wandering through the streets... there's 31 colleges that make up Cambridge University.
This is a view of the back of Trinity College. Its the cloisters where Isaac Newton clapped and stomped and measured the speed of sound.
Jen on a bridge over the Cam River. Get it? Cam-bridge!
We're walking in an area called 'The Backs' which is along the river seeing the backs of the colleges. This is St. John's College, founded by Henry VIII's grandmother. The tower in the middle is referred to as the wedding cake.
The Wren Library is above the Cloisters in Trinity College. Libraries were built on the floor above the ground so they were protected from the river flooding. AA Milne and his son Christopher Robin also went to Trinity College. (Winnie the Pooh author for those who don't know)
The back of King's College. Every college has study rooms, a room for each student to live, a library, dining hall, chapel and pub. In a college students of all areas of studies are mixed and when you apply, you apply to a particular college. Then, you attend lectures and laboratories (in buildings owned by university departments) with students from other colleges with your same subject matter.
King's College Chapel - very famous - we'll go in here later.
Crossing the Cam River
Inside King's College Chapel - you can see King Henry VII's coat of arms with the dragon & dog everywhere. Then when Henry VIII reigned he carved his and Anne Boleyn's initials in the wooden altar. There's a Reubens painting at the front of the chapel worth GBP43M and the roof weighs 1,850 tonnes plus lead on top (about the same weight as 5 or 6 Boeing 747s)
Outside the King's College Chapel in the yard.
The Eagle Pub is very famous... guess why? (Santos- you should get this - think Double Helix!)
Back on the River Cam at rush hour in the summer!
Mike inside Trinity College. This oval courtyard was made famous from 'Chariots of Fire' when the two bells toll 12 times each at noon, students try to run around the oval before the 24th chime.
St. John's College.
The town.
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