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The City During the holidays I visited Cambridge, my daughter's home city for a year. Everybody knows the town for its university, but surprisigly few have visited there although it lies only 80 kilometres to North East from London. A train takes you there from The King's Cross Railway Station in 50 minutes. One way ticket for four persons (from which one is a junior) costs around £75. It pays back to reserve an off-peak ticket in advance. Cambridge seems much smaller city thinking that it has 130,000 inhabitants. It's a beautiful city with old pictoresque houses. It can easily be experienced in a short couple day weekend holiday. You can walk all the major spots within a day and everything is close to each others. Our Hotel I had reserved a Queen Size room for us. The hotel, Double Tree by Hilton, proved to be an excellent hotel with outstanding service. We arrived to the city later than expected, because the queue for the Lond...

We arrived to Cambridge yesterday. Today I popped in a peculiar public transport system which combines the best of the buses and the rails: Guided Busway - or as the locals called it: Guarded Busrails The concrete tracks wide enough to buses to drive fast and safely without disturbance of the other traffic. Never seen such before • or knew that such even existed. No wonder. According to wikipedia the system was opened in August 2011. (Link and more info on the system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway ) With our trip to the village my daughter is living, we also experienced the floods over here. Gosh, it was lots of water around. This blogpost was written in The Anchor, a public house in Cambridge after a tearful depart from our daughter. In many places the flood almost reached the tracks.