At the beginning of this week Matt headed off to London to take his last perfusion test for certification in Ireland and Great Britain. I joined him in London for a night and then we hopped a train to Cambridge to see one of Matt's friends from perfusion school, Mike, who happened to be in England at the same time as us. A little less than one hour on the train through the rolling green hills and we were in the small town of Cambridge which boasts of 32 colleges! The most famous and beautiful is King's College but the whole town is full of old colleges and churches to feast your eyes upon. I was reminded a lot of Edinburgh and felt as though I had stepped back in time 500 years. The first colleges started springing up in Cambridge in the thirteenth century! By the names of many of the colleges, streets, and parks it seems that Cambridge was once a very Christian town. There is Jesus College, Christ College, Emmanuel College, Corpus Christi College, Jesus Lane, Trinity Street, St. John's Street, All Saint's Passage, and two parks named Jesus Green and Christ's Piece to name just a few. We happened to be in Cambridge on the night of the Champion's League final football game with Chelsea and Matt's favorite team, Manchester United. We grabbed a seat at a packed English pub to watch the game and enjoy the atmosphere of being in England during the English championship game. The next day we trekked around the town more touring King's College Chapel and shopping at the Cambridge Universtiy Press Bookstore -which is were my sweet single column black calf skin Bible comes from. We also had great English food including a pasty and a roast beef wrap where the wrap was YORKSHIRE PUDDING! I really enjoy England and would not mind living here. The people are friendly, the food is good, and the prices are much better than in Dublin- even with the exchange rate.
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