Allow me, as a resident of the fair city of Cambridge, to take you on a journey. Let's start, where a lot of people start, on The Backs. Now, to heathens such as I, this is "a bit of grass leading down to a river", and as such the need to travel halfway round the world to view it is a bit lost on me. But even I must concede that on the right sort of day, the view over the river to Kings College Chapel, meisterwork of Gothic architecture that it is, is a bit on the special side. Let's walk on down to the Silver Street Bridge, soundtracked by the birds in the trees and the punters (as in people ...
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