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Jul 9, 2005 - Taking a Walk

We dragged our jet-lagged selves out of bed and met at the Porter's Lodge by the front gates for a guided walk around the town center. One of the professor's from ASU, Cora Fox showed us where to find the post office, the grocery store, the dollar store and the bus and rail stations. We also saw some of the historic sights including the descendant of the apple tree made famous by Sir Isaac Newton. It grows in the same lawn as its ancestor. The river Cam runs through town and you can hire a punt (a small boat dubiously piloted using a long...

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Jun 19, 2005 - Day 8

This morning we took a bus into Kent to visit Charles Darwin's house, known as "Down House," where he lived after his marriage to Emma Wedgewood (interesting side-note: before marrying her he drew up a list of the advantages and disadvantages of having a wife), from 1842 until his death in 1882. Knowing that I was standing inside the room (Darwin's study), where he wrote "On the Origin of Species" and seeing the backgammon table where he played to relieve stress or sometimes simply displayed his specimens when they had overrun his other...

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