I used to think of Cambridge as just a building housing a university. When our train from Liverpool Street in London came to a halt after traveling 80 km and our kind hosts hurried us across a not so busy road to a bustling world filled with people, shops, museums and restaurants, I came to the realisation that Cambridge is more than that. In fact, it is a university city. There are several very distinctive must see college buildings from a seemingly bygone era making up the University of Cambridge and the mad rush to see them before they closed for the day was temporarily broken when we were distruacted by the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church. Then, off we went to see Peterhouse, St John's College, King's College Chapel and Corpus Christi College among others.Peterhouse, by the way is the oldest college of the university. The oldest standing building however is St Bene't's Church but I don't remember seeing it even though it stands just next to Corpus Christi College. Don't miss the Corpus Clock which is a large sculptural clock outside the Taylor Library. You won't see a clock like this anywhere else in the world. Don't mistaken it with the Midsummer Chronophage or the Dragon Chronophage. Besides a distinctive face, this one has a grasshopper. The Midsummer Chronophage has a mythical fly-like creature with intricate wings and a sting in its tail while the Dragon Chronophage has a Chinese Dragon. The one in Cambridge was officially unveiled to the public in 2008 by celebrated Cambridge physicist, the late Stephen Hawking
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