"I've got a little list"

[jaala]

Some lists. Possibly more items to be added.

Things I preferred about Cambridge:

• water directly from the tap tastes okay
  
• Nattie & Ben's towel heater
  
• soft and colourful toilet paper (I just seemed to encounter this more often)
  
• public transport that takes you everywhere (coaches and trains leaves once a day here, and aside from taxis that's all there is)
  
• a significant number of students my age or older
  
• the bicycle culture, less automobile traffic
  

Things I'm less likely to miss:

• Nattie & Ben's European-style shower (although it was nice that I never ran out of hot water if I turned the heater on in time)
  
• the frequency with which I encountered sinks with separate hot and cold water faucets (To be fair, the sink in my university house that I use most often is like this and I deal with it. But I'm not used to almost every tap I encounter being like this.)
  
• absence of snow
  
• being mistaken for American (though I expected this)
  

Photos I never got to take:

• a bollard, while actually "rising" (I thought this was a nifty concept)
  
• a "humps for [whatever] metres" sign (I know, slightly puerile)
  
• me with Nattie & Ben
  
• me with a Newmarket sign (I was born in Newmarket, ON, Canada)
  
• the countryside between Cambridge and London
  
• unpronouncable (to me at least) place names on the way to Oxford
  
• me in front of the Canadian Muff[in] shop
  

Things I will have to do if I get to go again:

• see a service at King's College, St. John's, or Trinity Chapel
  
• visit Ely Cathedral
  
• go up the tower of Great St. Mary's
  
• see more of London and/or Oxford
  

Thanks for the hospitality. I did have a wonderful time.