Maybe I am just a product of the generation that pretty much grew up in the age of terrorism, but I have found that I subconsciously put a large amount of trust in another country and its capabilities to avoid bad events when I visit. I actually find it quite interesting...to give a bit of background to my somewhat random thought, I am generally the type of person to avoid cities because of the lack of safety surrounding mass public transit like commuter trains and subways (this mode of thinking makes living within the metro NYC area lots of fun). I was thinking yesterday that I have to have a certain amount of trust in a country for me to use its public transit system in a large city...especially one like London that has suffered from terror attacks in recent years. Call me old-fashioned; call me an overreactor. But hey, it's better to be cautious and aware than blissfully ignorant. 

This is a (poor quality) picture of part of the dining hall here at King's College. It reminds me of the Yale dining halls, and I was surprised to find that it is barely 100 years older than Yale's dining halls. 

Just a rainy day in Cambridge...

This is a pretty typical side street in Cambridge...it really does look the way I imagined an old English town.

This is the St. John's College chapel. You can tell it is neo-gothic (1800s instead of original gothic from 1150-1550) because there are paintings and decorations...the original gothic decorations were generally all destroyed either during the reformation under Henry VIII when he split from the Catholic church or under Oliver Cromwell's reign in the mid 1600s.

Once again below is more neo-gothic architecture in St. Johns. Believe it or not, it is considered to be crappy neo-gothic architecture by most scholars because it deviates from the original gothic ideology so much.

 I was also happily surprised to see that they use real sugar in Coke over here.

Last night we went to a nice cafe called "Bill's." If you want to be able to imagine Bill's, just imagine what Cracker Barrel would be like if it was British. And below are two pictures of Bill's restaurant.