Cambridge In The Evening

The whole week of July 27-31, Katya was at her first annual Girls' Camp with our church girls. While she was away having fun camping and doing all sorts of activities like kayaking, bowling, sledding and making new friends, the boys did football camp on base (about that later) and played on the street. 

One of the nights, we drove back to Cambridge to show Mika a bit more of it than just "Five Guys". This time, traffic was great and we got to our new favorite Asian place Zhonghua Snacks right in time for dinner. We ordered a bunch of potstickers and enjoyed our meal thoroughly! This was Mika's first time to try such things:)

Next time we are in Cambridge looking for food, we should go back here.

After dinner, we drove to our usual place to park that offers great access to the most central part of town. There were NO CROWDS anywhere. In all these times we've visited Cambridge, we'd never seen it this empty. We could even take a picture of this beautiful building that we always pass on the way to King's College. 

Trying to get a picture with a British mailbox (but what's up with my arm??).

Pretty much all stores were closed. This was almost 8 pm. England has a funny way of shutting down its stores on main street around 5:30 pm. 

The first glimpse of the King's College Chapel in the evening sun.

But first, we have to stop and see our favorite 3D map of the centre of Cambridge. 

This iconic building doesn't get old. But WE need to come up with different poses for our pictures here to mix things up. 

Mika has the right idea. 

We walked through some back streets trying to find the particular street where "The Theory of Everything" was filmed. 

And we came out by the river Cam. As you can see--no people, no crowding by punting tourists. This  would have been the best time to go punting ourselves...

We were all very surprised at how quiet Cambridge was this evening after 7 pm. Most likely because students are gone on summer holidays and all tourist-daytrippers from London were heading back to the city. We loved it!

Lyana.