A few weeks ago our beer club whisked me off to Cambridge for a pub crawl, and to visit the Cambridge Winter Ale Festival. What was surprisingly thrown in before the trip was a tour of St. John's College. This monolithic complex was huge,
hosting at least five courtyards full of rooms. Each section had its own castle-styled arched entrance and fortified roofs. Then there wasn't s the chapel and Professor dining area as well as the Bridge of Sighs crossing the river. It was a real shame that we ran out of time; I would have liked to have climbed the tower; visited the library and witnessed Claxton's printing press. But we did cover a fair bit of ground in our whistle-stop tour. Once we were back on the bus we were whisked away to another part of the city where the beer was rapidly running out; but fortunately there was an excellent range of pubs nearby. 
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