Hi everyone. I’m still in Cambridge here with some new friends.
We’ve seen a lot of beautiful buildings on this trip,
but there’s more to Cambridge than just buildings.
Over here, you can see the River Cam that flows alongside the entire city.
I always thought that gondolas were only in Venice, but apparently,
they have the same thing here in Cambridge as well.
Only here, it’s known as punting.
Of course, I have to try out this punting tour, but I won’t be doing it alone.
This is my sister, Patricia, and she has kindly volunteered to join me.
What do you think of Cambridge so far?
It’s been really good so far.
I just got here last night, so I haven’t been able to see too much.
But it’s going to be good to be able to see it from the perspective of a punting boat.
That will be interesting. Yeah, that’s true.
I mean, we haven’t been to Italy,
but do you think it will be better than the Venice version?
I can only know that when I go to Italy, so let’s do the first half of the experiment
and then we can also plan a trip to Italy if you want to go!
Yeah, I wouldn’t mind that.
We like England. This is going to be good!
Looks like that’s our boat. Are we on the right side? This is comfy.
Does this go around the whole city?
No, the river just goes straight through the city, so it doesn’t do a loop at all.
How long have they actually been doing the tours?
I think Scudamore’s been punting since 1905 or something like that.
Oh, okay. For a while.
It does feel a bit Italian, doesn’t it? Yeah, we are getting some Italian vibes here.
This is where we start.
The bridge up ahead of me is one of the more famous bridges we go past.
It’s officially called the Wooden Bridge.
All the bridges are named basically what they are. Yeah, they’re not the most creative names.
It’s more widely known as the Mathematical Bridge. Oh, right! I read about that one.
I’ve had loads of British comedians go through there. Most notably Borat.
Really? Yeah, Sacha Baron Cohen studied there.
Didn’t Stephan Fry go here as well? Yeah. That’s where they all met.
That’s cool.
Top notch banter. Yeah, they study banteology.
It’s called punting because that’s the actual action that you’re doing.
You’re punting the boat forward. Also, the boat is called a punt.
It’s slightly confusing, but punting is both the verb and the boat.
It’s just a bunch of punt words.
That was my description. Was that a good explanation? Yeah.
Thanks. Thank you. You’re welcome.
Approval. I’ve been waiting all my life for this. All our lives.
That looks really nice, that view there.
It’s called the Bridge of Sighs. It’s nicknamed after a bridge in Venice.
Have you gone to Venice at all? No.
It’s actually named after Lord Baron. It sounds like something from Game of Thrones.
The nature is nice, too. What do you make of it? It’s very British nature.
What, like the species of trees?
I don’t know much about the species, but they do seem to look the same all around England.
That’s a good observation. And the grass is nicely cut, as always.
That’s British people in general.
No matter how small their garden is, they really take care of it.
Yeah. It’s as clean as my skin fade.
I had to get a fresh trim for Cambridge, you know what I’m saying?
That used to be the dominant library for Trinity College.
It’s not so much anymore. They’ve got lots of work there.
For example, they’ve got hand written and hand drawn illustrations of Winnie the Pooh.
Like, the originals? Yeah.
They also had quite a cool Newton exhibition.
But Newton was hundreds of years ahead of his time.
Like, how do you become that much smarter?
Good genes! I got it from my mamma.
Has anyone ever fallen off the boat? Oh, yeah.
Loads of times? Yeah, you might get caught.
There are a lot of people that do it themselves.
It’s quite a nice day and the river’s quite busy, so you might see someone fall in.
Fingers crossed.
It looks like our tour is coming to an end.
We’ve seen a lot of immortal buildings and learned a lot about the history.
This is really nice.
Yeah. It’s a nice alternative to walking through the city.
Many British comedians studied here.
Stephan Fry, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hugh Laurie … They all studied here.
So, if you want to learn good jokes, come to Cambridge!
Thanks for the tour. Thank you!
So, that was the punting tour. Yes.
It was really good.
I’d definitely recommend anyone who is coming here to Cambridge to do that.
Me, too.
What do you like to do on a sunny day?
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Bye! Bye!
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