Watching Fulham FC play at Craven Cottage the conditions were much different from the last game I had been to see. Andy and I had worn shorts and t-shirt to the football in late August. This time around in the middle of February Jess, her friend Bushy and I were all rugged up and I was still freezing cold. The 90 minutes felt much longer to me. The cold weather did not deter the crowd who turned out in force to support their team against Ukranian team Shaktar Donetsk. Fulham won the UEFA cup game and 2-1 and have since continued to win to see them make the final against Athletico Madrid which will take place on the 12th of May.
Attending another football game was on my list of things to do now I knew my time in London was coming to an end. In the same week I visited the Imperial War Museum, spent a night out in Camden town and went inside the Old Bailey (one of the world's most famous courthouses) during a trial. Jess and I also took a tour of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis. The venue looked quite a bit different than when I was their for the tournament last year as they regrow the grass every year.
I still wanted to visit Cambridge as I had not yet been there so I took the National Express on a day trip from London. Disappointingly as was the case when I visited Oxford many of the colleges were closed to visitors. I did take a walk around the colleges and watch the punters in action, I didn't take a ride though. Punting is when a person stands in a flat bottomed boat and pushes a large stick against the bottom of the river bed. It is now a very popular tourist attraction in Cambridge. I did enjoy admiring all the grand architecture but I couldn't study there.
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