A Day as an Artsy Knight in Cambridge: A Guide to Punting, Cycling, and Getting Lost.

Cambridge is basically what you'd get if you crossed a Harry Potter movie set with a bicycle hellscape. Once you hit the city center, you absolutely must rent a bike—the students here fly by so fast that you have to pedal just to keep up. Make your first stop King's College Chapel; its spires are so high you'll wonder if Newton dropped his apple from up there. Next, head over to the Corpus Clock to see the time-eating grasshopper, a friendly reminder that youth is fleeting and theses are notoriously hard to write. The main event is punting on the River Cam. I highly recommend paying for a punter, unless you fancy putting on a spectacular capsize show under a bridge and going for a free swim. When floating past the Mathematical Bridge and the Bridge of Sighs, make sure to strike a "Thinker" pose for photos, pretending you're deeply engrossed in solving Fermat's Last Theorem. Come evening, rush over to Market Square to devour some fish and chips, but watch out for food-snatching seagulls. There are no campus walls here; the entire city is the university. You can easily stumble upon centuries-old stones just by wandering around, and even the air is scented with the fragrance of knowledge (and rain). Cambridge University