Cambridge and Oxford are two universities in UK which are known world over for their excellence as centres of learning. I got the opportunity to visit the former yesterday, 2nd June 2012. Along with my son and wife, I visited the Cambridge city. In fact, the city really means the Cambridge University and the 31 colleges connected with it. After reaching there, my son went to his office and my wife and myself went to see the town.

We boarded a city bus and toured the entire city which is not very big. The town is full of colleges and connected institutions. Some of the colleges are functioning for the last three to four hundred years.   A few of them are from 13th century onwards.  Kings College, Queens College, Trinity etc. are some of the well known ones.  Some of these colleges are named after famous personalities like Charles Darwin, Churchill etc.   Jawaharlal Nehru studied in Trinity College. There are a large number of students from India even now. Many of the top leaders in India have studied in these colleges. The city has got  some very old churches also.

There is a cemetary of thousands of US soldiers who were killed during the Second World War ( 1941-45) defending Britain from the attack of German planes. Just like the cemetery in Kohima, all these tombs are named with the name of the victims, their designation and the unit they worked at the time of the war.  The cemetery is maintained by the US government.

There is a good museum of the university, but we could not visit the same.

Anyway, we got the chance to see the town and get in to the spirit of learning.