What's it like living in Cambridge then?

it's nice in the summer especially. lots of parks. film festival.

The football team have just been mathematically relegated. They worked this out before anyone else. Naturally.

More like this please. Pubs, sunday morning places? It's a real fucking shame about the trainers. Here in China there's lots of poor quality trainers to buy, but fuck all else to do. As I say I'm staking a lot on Cambridge being substantially different from China. I will be very fucked off if it turns out to be exactly the same.

Sunday mornings should be spent at the craft market in central cambridge - it's great, if you like that sort of thing.
What sort of pubs are you after, as there are a load of them!

Yeah but China is the best country if you want fakes trainers innit?

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I've only been to the Portland Arms (to play a couple of shows), but that's pretty good.

That's okay, I can talk to them without the nagging feeling that I might be arrested for saying the right thing.

Unfortunately I think I'll miss the Strawberry Fayre, of which I have strong memories of. it. There was a big metal thing I remember, curated by some crusties, and we spent many many hours hitting it with metal bars. I seem to remember Screamin Jay Hawkins trundling round a park, and then nearly running me down hours later as we stumbled out of a pub. Happy times.

What kind of pubs? Not fucking chainy ones, anyway. Riverside ones and ones with open fires. And any kind of alternativy musicky hippy hangouts. Bookshops! Mill Road sounds like heaven from here.

I don't think I'll be paying rent. Which is nice.

Er, that would matter to me, hence why I told this person!! Jeez!!

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Hi Davel!! :-)

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I'm going to the Greeeat wall next week, but I don't know why I'm bothering really as I could just go to the moon and look at it from there. Plus I'd be able to pick up some decent cheese, which of fucking course is difficult to locate here.

Hi Pink!

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Congrats on the job D!! :-)

But you can often see the moon from the Great Wall. Doesn't seem fair somehow.

Don't know about from the moon, but the Great Wall, the Pyramids and even various airports are visible from space.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4459311.stm

www.bad-timing.co.uk/

www.upgradeandafterlife.co.uk/

www.harvest-time-recordings.com/

www.americanbooze.co.uk

Rawganics has had some amazing nights in the past. Cambridge is HipHop (kinda)

No Good Record Shops (some okay dance/hiphop specialist and then Fopp, HMV, Virgin, Borders, but frequent record fairs in city centre)

Pubs: The Eagle (where DNA was "discovered"), the Free Press, the Tram Depot, the Bath House, the Portland Arms, CB2 and CB1, Earl of Beaconsfield, loads by Quayside

Rainbow Cafe is good for veggies, Dojo is good for noodles, Gardenia is good for souvlakia,

Istanbuls is good for shish pipes, late night nibbles and beers, La Raza is good for late night swish bar drinking and slinkyness

Fez club occasionally has good things.

Two months in the summer is all anyone needs to experience Cambridge. Get out before winter, this place sucks.

Good film festival in summer though and nice parks.

When you come I am up for FAP, frisbee and frescobol. Then I will move to London. Yay!!!!

see also: www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4459311.stm

You can't get to that link from here in the Instant Noodle republic, presumably in case you read something that makes you start shouting and breaking stuff.

Thanks very much for all the info Tannenbaum Schmidt. Is that an, er, Cambridge name?

Also riverside pubs: The Mill and The Anchor and The Green Dragon.

who are all these other Cambridge people and how do i not know of you?

hills road SFC football rules!

A photograph taken from space appears to confirm that China's Great Wall can be seen with the naked eye after all.

China's schoolchildren have long been taught that the ancient fortification is one of the few man-made structures that can be picked out from orbit.

However, last year, China's first man in space disappointed the nation when he said he had failed to spot it.

Now, an official newspaper has run a picture taken by a Chinese-American astronaut showing the wall.

Leroy Chiao took what the state-run China Daily newspaper says is the first photographic evidence using commercially available equipment.

It will allow education officials to breathe more easily, after fretting over whether to change the school textbooks.

In the picture, which is plastered over the front page, the wall is highlighted in orange to distinguish it from a nearby road and railway.

Leroy Chiao (bottom right) took the photos from the space station
The picture sent back by Mr Chiao, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, was authenticated by a leading Chinese expert.

This is just as well, because the astronaut, being interviewed by satellite and e-mail, said he himself was not actually sure he had really captured the wall.

He is going to try to snap it again when he next passes over China but he will have to be quick because he is orbiting at a speed of 8km (five miles) a second.

China's pride may be a bit blunted, because lots of other things such as Egypt's pyramids and even various airports can be seen, too.

But it can take some comfort in the fact that this apparent breakthrough was at least made by an astronaut of Chinese descent.

Ahh, I'm all wistful now..I used to go the St. Radegund after work and sit and read a paper.

I have just come back from a BBQ on Jesus Green and then playing Ultimate.

This town can be pretty great in the summer.

King Street run sucks tho, even if it has got table football.

There is an all day festival on Sat Aug 13th at a church on Jesus Lane which looks good. Josephine Foster, Alasdair Roberts, Sammi from Killa (Finnish underground) and me DJing at some point

Hold up, I presume you're talking NEXT Sunday...

Assuming the weather is decent. How's Parkers Piece, somewhere near Reality Checkpoint? 2pm?

Bring as many people as you can, and we should be able to get a decent number on each team.

Prepare to sweat!

Does this warrant it's own FAP thread btw?

I suggest that we augment the frisbee with alcohol, too.

July is a bit full with the Oxford Triathalon and FAP, but in August perhaps we could set up a Cambridge walk/bike ride/punt/FAP?

(Emsk and Ed will put you on the back of their bikes and take you home so you don't have to worry about taking the bus.)

Alas, I cannot bike ride as my bike has been stolen :(

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Any if it helps, weekday FAP is cool.

But nervous about this big August CamFAP proposed as you are all strangers.

Hmmm, there really are no Sunday buses to over, are there. But even evening FAPing imposes a tight drinking schedule:

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/bus_timetables/o.htm#Over

Anyway,

Perhaps we could arrange an actual FAP as well as frisbee for sometime this/next week in the evening if that's better for you. We could sit outside a pub, since the weather's looking like we'll not be able to do that for much longer...

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Do It.

Some great pubs, btw; plenty non-chain places with great beers and conversational atmosphere: the Eagle (just down Trumpington St., very near where I emerged after my last exam; suffice to say, us English lot had drinks there immediately after), the Castle Inn (just up the hill a little way). At a push, the Pickerel Inn.

Cambridge is great if you can get a place reasonably central and all your friends live reasonably central as well - everyone is 30min away tops, then - and usually on foot.

Great in summer. Bad for any avant-entertainment. Or late night boozing.

Too many bookshops for its size

Theres a lot of pubs and cafes around, I never found myself living more than 2-3mins walk from one. Plenty of potential for sitting around and reading/socialising or whatever. Best Cafe = Clowns on Kings Street. Best Pub = The Pickerell.

The downside for me was the music and nightlife. Both are generally pretty poor. Having said that, its really easy to put nights on. Thats what I ended up doing, and it redeemed things slightly. The problem is, the scene is so small that it can feel awfully claustrophobic. Seeing the same 20 people at any interesting night is cute at first, but it soon gets old.

I think it's a love-hate thing for me and Cam. Whether you would like it really depends of what your after. If you're after pubs, books and pretty buildings then you'll love it. If you're after excitement, you won't.

it really wasn't that stuffy, kids!