A Day Off from Teaching - A Visit to Cambridge

As those of you in the WRA History Movie Club will remember, the Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire was set primarily in Cambridge, England. On Tuesday, with no classes (they call them "lessons" here), I took the train up to Cambridge for some historical sightseeing. The trip was fairly long -- about two-and-a-half hours each way, but very worthwhile. I saw both Caius College -- the alma mater of Olympic gold medal winning sprinter Harold Abrahams, and King's College, famous for its world-renowned chapel choir. Cambridge is a beautiful city, much more compact and managable than Oxford. There was a lot of punt traffic on the River Cam thanks to a gloriously warm Indian summer day. Cheers!