Cambridge

Cambridge

Cambridge Serviced Apartments are conveniently located within a short walk of the heart of this famous English city.

Cambridge is famous for its ancient University, established around 1209 AD and made up of thirty-one Colleges. The Colleges are open to the public at certain times – you can check on college websites to see when they are open to the public, or if you are out walking just ask at the Porters’ Lodge at the gate. For guided tours around Cambridge contact the Tourist Information Centre on Peas Hill or go to www.visitcambridge.org . Don’t forget to see King’s College Chapel which took over 100 years to build and from where the Christmas Eve service, ‘A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols’, is broadcast all around the world.

Cambridge also has a wealth of museums and libraries that are open to the public, including The Fitzwilliam Museum (art and antiquities), Kettle’s Yard (contemporary art), and the Cambridge Museum of Technology. Also worth a visit is the University’s Botanic Garden, spread over forty acres near the railway station.

Cambridge has fantastic array of shops, with lots of unusual independent stores as well as the usual high street shops in the pedestrianised city centre (check out the Grand Arcade in St Andrew’s St). The new Burwash Manor shopping centre on New Road also has a great range of shops as well as tea rooms and is open seven days a week.

The choice of restaurants, cafés and bars in Cambridge is infinite, with something for every occasion, whether it’s a mid-shopping-trip pot of tea and Chelsea bun at Fitzbillies on Trumpington St, afternoon tea at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Granchester, or a pint at The Granta on Newnham Rd.

Finally, don’t forget the punting! You can catch chauffeured punts at various places along the river and float along the River Cam in true Cambridge style, gazing at unrivalled views of the famous College ‘Backs’.