Cambridge!

We went up the Cambridge for the day yesterday. Our friend Gareth was going to be playing in a football (soccer) match against Oxford. We took the train up in the morning, got in around 11:30. I was incredibly hungry and we didn't have bikes this time which are usually essential in hanging around Cambridge. We stopped on the way into town and I had a jacket potato, which is very popular among the British. It's just a baked potato, with a cross cut in it, opened up and filled with every good stuffing you can think of. I had cheese, bacon and baked beans. It was an enormous mountain of food and I barely scraped the surface of it. Then we walked into town centre. It was interesting because a lot of the construction that had been happening while we lived there was finished and it looked really nice. Matt went to the Market Square and got his favourite green thai curry from the thai food cart. We sat on the King's College wall and ate up. Then we walked to the football field and met up with Gareth and his girlfriend Kirsten. We watched Cambridge get creamed 8-1. After that we went to a pub, then got 'an Indian'.

Pubs here are interesting because 1) they usually have a lot of outdoor seating and 2) it doesn't ever get so cold that a few outdoor heaters can't make the outdoor space comfortable. Imagine all that effort put into insolating homes, trying to squeeze out every last little bit of energy efficiency, and here they're just pouring it out into the atmosphere.

After a pint at the pub, we went on the classic British tradition of 'getting an Indian', which is just going out to eat at an Indian restaurant. There used to be this TV show here (I think it was called The Kumars) and it was a sit com about an Indian family and they would 'go for a British' and they would ask the waiters, "Can you make mine not too bland please?"

We came home late, and just managed to catch the last train into London. Otherwise we would have had to stay at Gareth's. It was a fun day!