The Best Things in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

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The Best Things

• Ely - a Nexus!! Hahahahahahahah.
• trails
• Summer time punting, grantchester meadows, intelligent youth, and at one point the skate scene at the pool.
• Raves on the meadows in the summer
• Fireworks night & Strawberry Fair on Midsommer Common,Chilling out on Jesus Green in the sunshine, mates,picnic, frisbee, totty watching = v.happy chappy! Beautiful architecture, market stalls, drummers & good busker bands! Active fit people - rowers,runners,cyclists...city the size of a town. Easy to walk here & there. All flat!(Lots of hills where I came from).People chatting/singing while cycling!Various contraptions allowing kids to ride with parents.Lots available to do - classes,free lectures,gigs.
• punting in summer
• Punting, Cheap food

• Soul Tree
• First of all, it's got to be said mates - it's ALL about Cindy's! Although it's a bit of a mission, it's a great place to get codded after formal hall in your gown. Although i'm 19 and technically an adult i just love the fact that we get locked out from college at 11pm! It's way past my bedtime anyway. STAIRCASE PARTIES are immense. We all stay up very late drinking mulled wine (sometimes we listen to a bit o da r & b as the rastafarians like to call it. Oh i'll say old chap - bling bling. That is, until we get portered! Quel domage!
• Cambridge students!!! i moved to Cambridge 7 years ago and it rules!!! Loads to do at night, student based culture, culture, fun, entertainment, everything is near to everything. having loads of different nationals means the chance to meet wicked people and pull fit italians,irish,spanish,americans,french,germans hell someone from everywhere is there...of course there are the mingers - but look at England, we cant really protest! its pretty safe too... Dont forget Punting - many a happy memory. some decent shops like Hoax,Cult Clothing and everything u want. the drunks are hilarious, copious amounts of weed. borders. beer festival - strawberry fair!
• The best thing is the cambridge scene, i really like mike ball and James weir, they iz playas.Check out the local skate team: Alphonso Chadwick(alan), Hogwarts student(hugh Hardie),Cool and smooth (Joe Lewis), Dirty yet enticing(Tom Dixon)Little bongo boy(lil Luke), hard and brash(Narly Charlie), Small and ginge(little Charlie)
• The honeyz.
• The sense of history and important stuff invented right above the cafe youre sitting in or opposite the paper shop you use. The city is freindly. Its great to step into the lungs of the city - the fens streching right into the centre, biking along the Cam - and punting when the tourists arent here. Amazing college quads you can nip into to leave the 21st century behind you in lunch breaks
• Fitzwilliam college, the people the attitude, the lack of public school people.

• The chilled out weird eccentric style of Cambridge. The Mill Road area is a wonderful place. Like a Student Ghetto, but still with a wonderful mix of Bohemian types, ethnic minorities and interesting shops selling intriguing stuff and ethnic foods. I love the fact that you can pretty much walk round the whole City in a few hours.
• Now 50 minutes from Lakeside and one hour from Bluewater and no parking charges! via M11 & 25
• Chilled
• going to my ants house it is mad crack
• The people here, the whole atmosphere, the amount of parks ... I've only been living here for 3 weeks now and have never been to Cambridge before that - but the first impression is fantastic and if I believe most of the comments I've read I'm sure it's going to be a *great* summer! I might even want to stay here forever...
• Hoax skateshop, 2Seasons, Billys, Cult Clothing, Freespirit
• The Greens, The Pubs, Cambridge United FC,
• about Cambridge...The people...well most people!!
• has to be the ship pub arbury
• Fit birds in the summer (lots of) very nice place to live driving to the top level of the Grafton centre car park and coming down the spiral exit ramp in neutral and seeing how far you can go without braking. Cambridge Uunited. On a good day.
• mullets
• The laid back attitude, the market, Galloway and Porters, Brownes bookshop, The Backs in the spring, a punt and champagne, Nutroast in the Cambridge Blue, The bicycles everywhere on weekday mornings during college term. I don't like dissing tourists, as they bring good money, and they genuinely love the city. (who wouldn't?) so although sometimes they might wander in front of the bike or hover menacingly with a camera, just think how you feel when you are on holiday, and imagine how many drawers all over the world have photos of a grinning holiday maker, with you in the background!!
• cool people
• amount of drugs on the street
• The only good thing you can ever do in Cambridge is catch me visiting Corpus Cristi college armed to the teeth with the means to get even a first class honours degree student kicked out of uni, home and society in general...
• Its very safe
• Footlights mexican restaraunt, sense of unity, chilled evenings and less chilled evenings
• the fudge shop its so nice:)and the nice girls
• For such a small place, there's a lot more to do than you'd think. I love Mill Road, the coffee shops, the open spaces and fact that everywhere is within walking distance. And the swimming baths have a "health centre" that is fantastic for wasting a whole day in a jacuzzi for about £4.
• the skate culture, a lot of down to earth, phat skaters, especially the blokes who work in vert, i saw them just today PHHAATT!
• Sorry you all seem to hate the students - yes they can be a pain in the arse - I got knocked off my bike by a crowd of Japanese all moving in unison like a shoal of panicky fish, but, criminy, get into those pubs in summer and see the female students! I lived in Spain for a couple of years and I shagged more gorgeous hispanic babes in Cambridge than I ever did in Segovia. Its a lovely place. Greenery, pubs, river and amusing silly students when you've chilled out.
• Nice in the summer
• The mix of people; the range of music and theatre; the abundance of green space.
• Railway station - yes it's miles but Univ didn't want it in town when they built it; beating the GTI brigade with help of British land when they started racing near my house (motorbikes are much cooler anyway); lowest homeless rate in East Anglia - 20 people; Tony Barker who runs Jimmy's nightshelter; Mill Road Cemetery; adhoc city website for realising Cambridge is cool, PACT (Petersfield Area Community Trust; Friends of Mill Road Cemetery; Regal for being the best Weatherspoons in UK; living near the river; it's not Nottingham or Manchester so therefore loads prettier and the lack of clubs keeps it that way - you can't have everything so go drown in Ibiza - Stansteds just up the road
• Loads of places to lounge around and get pissed. Cows on some of the commons freaking the tourists out. Strawberry Fair. Lots of pubs - There are so many that when we once played pub golf (18 pubs, drink in each etc) we didn't even need to use the expensive town centre tosspot ones - at least I don't think we did, I can't remember much past pub 12, apart from being sick on Midsummer Common.
• ALL THE HOT CHICKS
• Can't really think of any, apart form there are plenty of books shops. Wetherspoons is nice as well
• Nadias Patisserie's cakes, punting on the Cam, summer evenings on the quayside, beautiful buildings, May Balls
• The wonderful architecture covering most of the last millenium, an endless amount of pretty 18 year old girls, Emmanuel College bar, Parker's Piece, King's, John's. Generally people here are friendly apart from the inverted snobbery shown towards students from people with a chip on their shoulder.
• The length of winter, the lack of nightlife, the fact that wherevever you go, there's a library next door!
• Although the townees may moan about all the students, the amount of young people gives Cambridge a young, lively and optimistic feel.
• The best thing about Cambridge is its size - it's a City that's town-sized. You can walk clean from one end to the other in a couple of hours. Lots of pretty cool pubs, lots of winding alleys and side-streets with curious hidden shops.
• The great mix of people and the air of excitment at the start of the two University terms.
• I'm at Anglia University in Cambridge, and although the place can be a pain in the arse (mainly for the reasons outlined: arsehole students, crap buses, fenland breezes, etc) it's also a pretty cool place in its own chilled out way. The thing is, you just have to know how to avoid the Cambridge university tossers.
• Dear me, "the best and the worst" section seems to have brought out people's worst prejudices.
  Fact: a tiny minority of the students "went to some top public school", and less than half went to any public school. And even if they did, that doesn't make them "pretty damn sad". Do you really want to let ignorant prejudiced fools clutter up your Web pages with such drivel?
  The worst thing about Cambridge is in fact not the buses (which are pretty bad) but the cars. There's just too much traffic, and 95% is the cars!
• There are lots of cars everywhere and they aren't going to go away so get used to it. Many's the time I've seen cyclists riding along at night with no lights on or going the wrong way around a roundabout. Anyway what happened to all the green bikes:-)
• I'm a student at the University, and I went to crap state schools in Manchester. And my Dad digs up roads for a living. But I also agree that there are far too many posh wankers around, whether they went to public school or are rich or whatever. Without cars, tourists, posh twats, arseholes who drive in circles around Market Square of a Saturday night, strong winds and haircuts at six quid plus, Cambridge would be a great place.
• Cambridge is a superb place. Mainly because it is only 15 miles south of Britain's finest city, Ely. Ely is paradise, an oasis of excellence, it is the Nexus. And everyone who lives therein is enlightened. Cambridge is also fantastically flat which annoys climbers etc. Fucking great, get another hobby you silly sods.
• I was born in Cambridge, and I am currently a student in Cambridge. The worst thing about Cambridge is the bloody foreign students, all cycling around in groups of around 100, taking up both sides of the road. The best thing about Cambridge is the British students who were born in Cambridge or the surrounding area (excluding the students from the Purse School, who are a bunch of toffie nosed arseholes). The Cambridge people are cool, and really know how to party. They also know how to make the best out of really boring city, where there is nothing to do, (except kill the foreign students, all cycling around in groups of around 100, by running them over in your car). Long Road sixth form college is the best college there, and it is a babe fest all year round.
• Wretched mini-malls in centre of town.
• Hello! I'm a foreign student who have visited Cambridge recently. I'm very sorry to read that British students can't stand the foreigns! I do have to say that I love Cambridge most because of the British people. You are really great with foreign students!!!! Moreover, I can really say that Cambridge people are not cold - as the Brithsh stereotype. I hope you can change your mind concerning students from all over the world who love your little city!!!!
• It is wonderfully easy to get from one place to another.
• For students, May Week. Everything is close to everything else, and its less than an hour from London. Punting and getting drunk and falling in the river Playing frisbee or football on midsummer common When students and cambridge residents get on with each other, they tend to find they quite like each other. the river Oddbins on Kings parade
• This is a place to chill ... only those who don't have this gift find petty little pleasantries like foreign students or students irritating.
• The best thing about Cambridge is the wide range of visual arts on offer for such a small city. The Fitzwilliam has old European masters, as well as some Modernist works. Kettles Yard has exhibitions of contemporary art (often obscure installations, but also such delights as carvings in the Modernist tradition of "truth to materials". The Cambridge Darkroom has photographic exhibitions and the University Museum of Anthropology has a world-famous collection of non-Western art/artefacts. And the worst thing about the city? Quite possibly a general air of snobbery emanating from those dreaming spires; but without those spires there would be no cultural facilities of note in Cambridge.
• It's near Grantchester Meadows - worth the trip, especially if you're a Pink Floyd fan. If you like pub culture and decent ale, you'll love Cambridge. Lots of sexy foreign students are a big bonus!
• Strawberry fair - 25 years old and the highlight of the year, drugs, booze and dancing shoes, it's a free event that happens every year. Bit like a one day feastival. loads of people there, and not many barrys, so everyone gets pissed and get along

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