Cambridge, England
Harry Potter
That’s was what kept running in my head where walked around that small town of Cambridge.
Atazva, my girlfriend, was sent to do an experiment with the geotechnical department of Cambridge and I took the opportunity and came to visit Cambridge… I mean I came to visit Atzva! =)
I take the train to the university like in the books (well she didn’t fly), watch the hugh dinning halls, buy myself a handful of jelly beans with strange tastes (burned marshmallow) and walk between old colleges (and sneak in like I was a student).
I kept thinking that when I read the book, not only the magic part was fantasy for me, but all those things were also kind of magical for me =). While for Englishman it might be pretty obvious…too bad for them =P
Take Care
Gad
Look at that truss! look at the cables that hold the strut! (yeah, I know I kind of broken the moment, but I’m still as structural engineer =)
In a cold and rainy train station (someone directed me to the train to London… =/ ), but in the end I got to Cambridge.
Look at it, they using flat panels of steel as structural diagonals! what about the buckling out of the plane?!… OK! OK…=( no more work during the vacation…
The river of Cam… Cambridge=Cam+Bridge…mmm.. never thought about that way =)
That’s what remember of my trip to London when I 15 years old: Big Park with chestnut trees. Cambridge
The round church, the oldest church in Cambridge… but on the other side of the street…
A candy shop!
The bulletin board of Cambridge =)
Far in the left the king’s church (amazing! – wait till you see the pics form inside), and on the right the Senate (The place student are afraid of – where you have to submit your final work to =0, funny cause in the Technion we keep thinking of it as the place where go when you don’t got paid =)
King’s College church from a closer look (it is loooong…)
King’s College church from a Inside (what a surprise, it’s also long from the inside! =)
A small sign that made it finally clear who was against who in the Wars of Roses (Both both of the sides had rose in their banners, one red and one white)
If you look close, you can see that there are cows on the grass! The reason for that is King’s college is poor. It was, as it name suggest, the college in which the kings came to. That is why is has the biggest church, it was the wealthiest on those days, everybody donated money and jewels to it. But now, those things yield no income – that’s why the college charge money to enter the church and declare their land as a agriculture land – They grew cows on it =)
They real walk with those costumes! no, not really, I just got in the day of the final ceremony was held. But apparently the professors have to wear them when they go to the staff dining room, or they won’t let to eat!
Making Fudge! I don’t really sure what they put inside but I really liked it =). This is a Fudge Kingdom – a shop that makes it handmade, watch the movie, how the black surface become that sweet roll of fudge!
Peterhouse college – the oldest of them (1284)… the woman at the tourist information told us it is free to enter this one…
… But Atzva told me that they don’t really check student card at the entrance to the colleges (especially now, when they start the semester). With enough confidence, and without anything that might give you away (a map, a camera…) we manage to sneak in to plenty of the colleges =P
The Mathematical bridge. The legend says that Ser Issac Newton designed the bridge to stand without nuts or bolts. The reason that are now bolts that hold it together is it because some students took it apart to understand how it worked, but didn’t manage to rebuild it, and had to use bolts… =P
St. Michael’s church – Because Cambridge is full of historical buildings, original solutions have to be made in order to keep them and to find ways to finance their maintenance: In this church, they rent of the place to a coffee shop, while the rest keep functioning as a church.
Trinity street and Trinity college – the wealthiest of them and Ser Issac Newton college.
Cambridge Presbyterian Church (she was on our way, so we jump in =)
And just a little bit more buildings from an engineer point of view =) : on the top – a wood house that its deformations can be seen, and to the bottom Schlumberger Gould research =)
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