We left New York and spent a few days in Connecticut – including time at the excellent aquarium in Mystic (of Pizza fame), and on the beaches along Long Island Sound. Most of our stay though was in New Haven, where the Frisbee was invented and perhaps more notably the home of Yale University. We wandered round the University campus over the course of a weekend, and bullied Lily into some photo opportunities.
My friend Clare was unimpressed.
Ignoring the fact that it produced five U.S. Presidents, 52 Nobel Laureates, several foreign heads of state and The Fonz, she – rightly – poured scorn on an institution with a mere 300 years worth of history:
Our Alma Mater, the venerable University of Aberdeen, has been on the go for a 521 years now – up and running while Columbus was ‘discovering’ what then became America…
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