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Harvey Court, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DS, UK

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Florey Cafe - Harvey Court, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DS, UK

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Florey Cafe - Harvey Court, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DS, UK

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~5 minutes away from EFL ☕

The most elite seats in the house! Grab a coffee, a snack and a book for my favourite kind of brain break.

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The Iris Cafe is about a 5 minute walk from EFL. Walk through Newnham entrance and take a left, you will find the very light and airy Iris. It's a lovely place to get a cup of coffee or tea and a scone or two.

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Top floor, really nice working space and surrounded by art - feels a bit like working in a small art gallery. And really nice coffee.

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~1 minute

Sometimes going to the ARC is just fundamental to life and provision of sustenance. As the closest café to the English Faculty (at the right angle you can actually see it from the library) it is the best spot to grab a quick coffee or panini when you are maximizing a little bit of time.

Pros: bring your student ID and a keep-cup for discounts

Cons: if you go at lunch be prepared for inescapably long queues.

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Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge

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The tea room counter. Photo from the UL website. I'll update this with a snap the next time one of us goes!

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🧁☕The Tea Room, Cambridge University Library

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🧁☕The Tea Room, Cambridge University Library

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~10 mins away from EFL

Well, I think they've missed a trick not calling it From Stacks 2 Snacks, but the UL Tea Room is the perfect place to refuel after a quick 5k searching for a book in South Front 6. Their cheese scones are basically part of the UL's heritage at this point, having been The Researcher's Choice since the late '70s. I'm surprised they haven't made it into a dark academia novel yet. They also do barista-made coffee, cakes, sandwiches, soup and toasties, served in the bright and airy North Wing.

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POV picture of relaxing outside the EFL in the garden by the benches. Kate's wearing blue denim jeans, brown socks and beige/cream Vans slip ons. It's sunny!

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~0 mins away from EFL, home to free Tea @ 3 on Thursdays 🍵

You don't have to go far to take a break. We know you know, but also... breaks! They're so good! I love them! If you're lucky and can tolerate a schnoz full of pollen then you could sit on the grass but if not then pull up a chair and take five for yourself. Trust me, your brain will be plugging away in the background, working on behind-the-scenes Useful Stuff while you rest for 5, 10, 20, 30 (sub in whatever number you need here. Pomodoro heads do not @ me).

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Selwyn College Gardens in the spring. Blossom on the trees and blue and white daisy-like anemones. Photo by Kate Schneider.

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~2 minutes away from EFL

This is unanimously the EFL team's favourite semi-secret spot to take a break. It's dreamy!!! Walk through an inconspicuous door behind the Marshall Economics Library and you're in the best place to read a book, ID dragonflies by the pond (cc: Senior Library Assistant, David Rushmer) and catch some rays. Even the chewiest Eat Natural snack bar from the vending machine will taste a lil better surrounded by pompom-like lilac alliums (and/or other seasonal blooms, thank you talented Selwyn gardeners).

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The gate leading from Sidgwick into Harvey Court, Gonville and Caius College. It's behind a bike rack and disguised by bushes and trees.

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👀The not-so-secret gate to Florey's Cafe 

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👀The not-so-secret gate to Florey's Cafe 

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A gate that really has no business being so cute.

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A golden vegan sausage roll with a blob of brown sauce and a blob of ketchup. Photo Kate Schneider.

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~ 3 minutes from EFL

The Buttery's vegan sausage roll is the bootleg Greggs' of the Sidgwick site and I mean that as a compliment. Reticent sauce application in this picture but don't let my lack of ambition discourage you. This could be your five minutes of crispy, golden solitude, if you want.

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The grassy square framed by the Raised Faculty Building. Taken at 9am to avoid permissions issues so there are no people lol but you know it's a vibe.

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~3 mins from EFL

This is the closest thing we have to "quad culture" imo. I'm waiting for the Sidgwick girlification of the hacky sack (it's a state of mind). But for now this is a reliable no-frills-just-vibes spot for a break for those times when you're feeling more Antony gormless than Antony Gormley (cf. DAZE IV, Gormley's cast iron sculpture just round the corner).

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Gated woodland triangle between two footpaths which looks like it was designed to keep humans out or fairies in. Maybe both. 

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~10 mins from EFL

If you turn left on Burrell's Walk running down the side of the UL (which can honestly feel like taking a stroll down Fury Road depending on the bike traffic) there is a triangle of woodland space right as you get to Grange Road. It's covered in bluebells in the spring and all year round gives the general impression of having all the wonder and dangers of a fairy ring. (This feels like a good time to remind you all that messing with fairies is historically NOT GREAT.)

You could probably do the loop around the triangle and be back at the EFL in 15 minutes, so it's a great place to take a short break where you actually feel like you have been somewhere different with lots of singing birds and butterflies and soft green things to rest your eyes on.

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1 Church Rate Walk, Cambridge CB3 9HJ, UK

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An alleyway lined with Cambridge cottages. Photo Kate Schneider.

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🚶‍♀️Walk to the area of Newnham via a cute alley

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🚶‍♀️Walk to the area of Newnham via a cute alley

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~10/15 mins from EFL
~45 mins+ round trip

The area of Newnham is about 15 minutes away from English but you'll feel like you've had a holiday in a lunchbreak. Cut down the narrow Church Rate Walk and you'll come out opposite Lammas Land. Keep going, past a grubby, cool 1930s art-deco housing block and you hit the Newnham co-op.

Pick up a lolly here or keep going through the pastel cottages to the French bakery Maison Clement Newnham (they do great iced coffee and snacks like a strawberry tart or a chocolate fondant cake) or the deli Meadows, which serves as an outpost of Jack's Gelato. Derby Stores is also great and the Butcher's does pasties if you eat meat. Newnham: it's the home of Nice Picnic Bits for Fancy Lil Guys™.

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Relaxed atmosphere ground-level watering hole featuring a bar, tables of various heights and size, and big windows which let in optimal relaxation light.

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☕ Selwyn College Café Bar, Cambridge, UK

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☕ Selwyn College Café Bar, Cambridge, UK

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If you're allergic to the outdoors (and let's be honest, 'no-mow-May' is not being kind to anyone's allergies), there's a trendy-looking café bar in the corner of Selwyn Court the delivers a social but solitary space to take a break and regroup.

Pros: comfy sofas, a variety of tables, and generally not populated by everyone you know who needed a coffee that minute as well (absolutely an ARC Cafe drag).

Cons: Occasional truly dubious taste in music and does not include that sweet, sweet student discount available at other Sidg-Site caffeine dispensaries.