I have visited Cambridge for the first time!

It takes approx. 4 hours in various trains to get there from Manchester. By the way, I have noticed that the Virgin trains which run from Mcr to London probably cause me migraines, because they make some sub-sonic noise.

The only really interesting thing about the journey is that you can buy a train ticket which also works for London metro, between Euston and King's Cross. You just insert the train ticket into the automatic machine, and it lets you go through, and you can ride one station by metro! Isn't it funny?

Cambridge gives an awful first impression (at least when you arrive from London), and a very good second impression.

When you arrive from London, there is a building which looks pretty much like some really ugly industrial establishment, perhaps some waste management facility or something like that. It's box-like and with a huge chimney, and you just wonder - and that's that? Everyone says Cambridge is very nice, but the only thing I see is this? (I was later told that this ugly building is a hospital.)

Then you come to a train station (which is just usual train station), and you have to walk, like, 20 min from the train station to the city centre. This walk is not really the nicest in the world - the street is just an ugly big street with a lot of traffic, and the buildings are not particularly interesting or beautiful. And during the whole walk, you just wonder: and that's that?

And then you arrive to the city centre, and you see all the beautiful stuff! There are the white-stone neo-gothic buildings, with the gardens and the arches, and all the things from postcards. It looks like bright Hogwarts. :-)

The downside is that all these nice buildings have a very clear message on their door: keep off, college members only.