Category: England
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Winter Botanic Garden
This is not my first time visiting the Cambridge University Botanic Garden; I hope it’s not my last. I love this little place, my own little secret retreat down the street from my house. Last time that I came, it was fall, colorful. It’s amazing to see a place transform with the seasons. The rose…
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Winter London
A rare spot of sun in February London. I had a friend visiting from Boston for the week, which meant that I spent a few days re-visiting all of London’s main tourist sites. We started at Big Ben, made our way past Parliament, up to Westminster Abbey, to my favorite nearby pub, over to the Churchill…
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Horsey Gap
Seals!!! This was one of the happiest, greatest, best moments of my entire life – there really isn’t any other way to put it. I’ve loved seals ever since I was a little kid and my parents would take me to see the seals out front at the Woods Hole aquarium. So naturally, once I…
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Wicken Fen
A Saturday stroll, close to home. One thing that we’ve struggled with in England is finding simple, naturally beautiful outdoor places to explore without having to drive at least an hour – the type of walk or hike we could begin spontaneously in the afternoon. And then we discovered Wicken Fen, a Natural Trust reserve (England’s…
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Winter Cambs
Weekday wandering around winter Cambs. My new favorite mid-week activity – a break from post-grad, job-app life – is an excursion into the center of town to do two things: (1) buy fresh flowers from the market and (2) aimlessly walk around playing with my camera. And here are some of the results of the…
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Botanic Garden
Travelling far away is exciting, but sometimes it’s worth remembering that one need not go far to explore. I found this little botanic garden a mere twenty-minute walk from my house in Cambridge and decided to spend an afternoon wandering through it in the last hour before it closed for the evening. It was the first…
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