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The Round Church. Not the place where the Round Church congregation worship, as I discovered last year...



Slightly fuzzy picture of the Granta pub, all lit up at night.



Autumnal-looking Coe Fen.



Trinity Street.



Trinity Street looking up the other way, past Trinity and John's.



ErestorSwan, posing for photos or maybe just hoping for food.




The mill pond, most pretty.



Random bit of St John's college, as I was standing near it at the time. Apparently not part of Magdalene, although in another life it might have been. Most of central Cambridge, it seems, belongs to either Trinity or John's.



The town hall with Christmas lights.



Shop fronts on Bridge Street being cute.

Date: 13 Dec 2004 00:39 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jaiden-s.livejournal.com
They're lovely! Thanks for posting them!

Date: 13 Dec 2004 00:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enismirdal.livejournal.com
No problem! I just wish that I hadn't got camera shake when I was taking pictures of the nicest streets, or there would have been some better pictures of the Christmas lights!

Date: 13 Dec 2004 08:45 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] megamole.livejournal.com
Thanks to fwuffy Eni for Xmas card. Can have one by return if you email me your address.

Date: 13 Dec 2004 13:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enismirdal.livejournal.com
No problem and ooooo, I'll e-mail you then! :D

Date: 13 Dec 2004 00:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilanin.livejournal.com
I believe I am, by college regulations, forced to ritually [nasty thing] you at this point for captioning St. John's College chapel (with bits of forecourt gate) as "Random bit of Magdalene College, as I was standing near it at the time". However, I suspect this is probably a case of uploading the wrong photo, as John's chapel is, erm, both distinctive and fairly obviously attached to the rest of the college, I shall merely meekly request a recaptioning and glower in the general direction of Manchester.

Date: 13 Dec 2004 00:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enismirdal.livejournal.com
*does so* I admit I was surprised at how much of the city centre my brain had identified as Magdalene...

Ooops.

*hides under sofa*

It's called...my brain refuses to accept just how big John's is, so mentally reduces it by assigning parts of it to other colleges. *laughs evilly*

Date: 13 Dec 2004 01:01 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilanin.livejournal.com
John's isn't all that scary-big, really...there's much more of Trinity, although it is more spread out.

Johnians can go up that tower; it is claimed that from the top you can see Ely cathedral on a clear day. I am unconvinced.

[livejournal.com profile] ilanin, who is not a Johnian, and who definitely does not live just on the other side of the wall in the other pic of John's, oh no.

*puts away interesting looking metallic contraptions*

OK, you can come out now....

Date: 13 Dec 2004 08:56 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com
But, err, didn't we *see* Ely Cathedral from the top of Johns together?

/me wonders if that was [livejournal.com profile] green_jedi instead.

Date: 13 Dec 2004 13:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilanin.livejournal.com
We saw something we decided we would claim was Ely cathedral, on the grounds that it was in the right direction and it was the right colour and it might have looked vaguely cathedral shaped if you squinted....

Date: 13 Dec 2004 01:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gwyllion.livejournal.com
WOW......wish I was there....:::pouts::: Lovele lovely pics. Thanks so much for sharing. Post more if you have...heheheh. ^^

Date: 13 Dec 2004 01:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elbereth-elena.livejournal.com
And I'm going there on Thursday....pwitty pwitty Cambridge, I love you Cambridge!

Date: 13 Dec 2004 01:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slayer9649.livejournal.com
I have really enjoyed looking at these pictures. It's like taking a peek at a place out of time, so to speak. Living in Dallas, Texas, well, we don't have anything that is historic like this to look at. Your talking about Trinity college and St. John's and Cambridge is confusing to me since I have no earthly idea of how many campuses there are in the town. It sounds a bit like Boston with all of its universities scattered throughout. (I've never been there either)

Thank you, Enismirdal, for snapping these shots (even with a shaky hand) and sharing them with us Yanks. *sighs happily*

*hugs* Patricia

Date: 13 Dec 2004 06:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-deadbard179.livejournal.com
Thank you from me too. What a great place to be. *crosses fingers* soon

Date: 13 Dec 2004 13:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enismirdal.livejournal.com
Cambridge University works a bit like a mini United States, I suppose. The university is in charge of all the colleges (there are about 30, give or take) but the colleges themselves have a pretty good degree of autonomy with regard to how they run themselves. Students from all the colleges are lectured together within a subject, but the small supervision groups (you, a couple of other students and a professor or whatever) are arranged within your college (usually).

If that makes any sense at all.

So St John's and Trinity are rich colleges with lots of land, therefore the rest of us are supposed to pretend to dislike them!

Date: 13 Dec 2004 09:57 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/fishyz9_/
Hehehehe I've been there! Bridge street! And Trinity street!

Date: 13 Dec 2004 10:31 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com
Nide photos - I'll have to potter around Cambridge with a camera myself again.

Og, and I can tell you took them out of term: not enough bicycles!

Date: 13 Dec 2004 11:26 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hermeneut-me.livejournal.com
thank you for posting these, I am missing ol cam

Date: 13 Dec 2004 16:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melime.livejournal.com
Wow. I'm so jealous. I showed these to a friend, and she said, "This has to be England. It's too pretty to be here." LOL. I want a mill pond at my school! *pouting* Thanks for showing these. Us Americans only get to see stuff like this on The Travel Channel. ;)

Date: 14 Dec 2004 14:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cobalt-skye.livejournal.com
You're homesick for Cam? Ah, somebody else who thinks of that place as 'home'!
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