Cambridge, England: Shine On You Academic Diamond

Scholarly or psychedelic, this is a city of strong predilection.
Interstellar Overdrive and the Speed of Sound.
Syd Barrett and Sir Isaac Newton.
Winnie-the-Pooh.
Majestic and intoxicating, the Wren Library.
Messy and Lilliputian, The Haunted Bookshop and the Indigo Cafe.
Freaks and frat boys punting and revising all at the same time.

Shakespearean tragedies under the Weeping Beech; choral chants under the King's Gothic vaults.
Brilliant and dramatic. Shine on, you crazy diamond...

Soundtrack: Interstellar Overdrive Parts I & II by Pink Floyd.

Casually watching the punters punt by

Cambridge in Spring

Visitor at the gates of dusk...

...and at the even creepier lunch room in Pembroke College

We're floating

We're jamming

We're chilling

We're gasping

We're bending

We're punting on psychedelics

In back alleys

And at the Backs gardens

Surfing, reading, pondering, in defiance of the historic monsters in the background.

The singing bus to Cambridge

King caught in a sunny day's storm

Thirst for knowledge...

...and procrastination

Study till you drop - but you drop here!

Singer/songwriter at King's College - classy

Pembroke College - Scholarly h(e)aven

Ghastly book haunt - The Haunted Bookshop

Cambridge's diamond and madcap: Syd still hangs at the Anchor, where Pink Floyd played one of their first gigs