New Jersey on the Cam

We have not even been here a week and have already met up with people from the states - John and and his daughter Elly - who we knew from NJ and Bell Labs.  John is in fact now a U of Chicago professor and our host when we do fall dropoff.  John had previously done a sabbatical  in Cambridge (at Microsoft).  We met him at the Maypole, his old local when he lived here.  Later we were joined by Tim (another former Bell Labs person) and his family; Tim is now CS faculty at Cambridge and Fellow at Kings.   A fun time.  Felt like Pittsburgh seeing the pub serve chips with the lasagne :-) Except we had just walked to the Sunday market and back when we got John's email about meeting up, so had to walk right back and beyond to get to the pub (over 2 extra miles!).