Christ Church College Oxford

Even though I've been sick since the Super Bowl on Sunday, I've done quite a lot.

So last Sunday was the Super Bowl, and due to it airing really late here and I had no vested interest in either of the two teams playing I only watched it until after the half time show. I watched the Super Bowl at Imperial College. They had a large screening …

Hatfield, la ville où j'habite à cause de mon université est plutôt pourrie. C'est pour ça que le week-end dernier nous avons décidé assez spontanément d'aller faire un petit tour à Oxford (quand je dis nous, c'est mon copain et moi). Ce n'étais pas la porte à coté, mais en passant par les petits chemins Anglais, le trajet a semblé court.
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OXFORD

The place of myths both in the United States and England. It is where the educated attend school. They achieve some type of mystical powers by attending this school, which makes them one of the elite. One of the intelligentsia. An expert who now has access to the highest members of the intellectual debate. In other words...almost …

I have to write a paper tonight (yeah I am still in school ew) so my post (should) be a little shorter tonight.

First off...a random fact I learned and forgot about last night!

• "Gargoyles" is a very misleading title. We normally associate gargoyles with those scary things perched on top of buildings. In actuality, it is only a …

The title might be a giveaway! We took a day trip to Warwick (pronounced Warrick) Castle, Stratford upon Avon and Oxford. Toby, the guide was very dramatic, spouting information non-stop but definitely enthusiastic about the subject which was hardly surprising when he told us he had majored in history at University. Warwick Castle dates back 1000 …

Ich kam an einem Donnerstag, dem 4.8.2011 aus Charleston wieder. Am folgenden Sonntag besuchten mich meine Eltern, der Umzug war auf Montag geplant. Das Wiedersehen war klasse! Wir hatten uns lange nicht mehr gesehen und hatten uns unglaublich viel zu erzählen. Außerdem waren meine Eltern bis jetzt nur einmal in Oxford gewesen, aber das auch nur fü …

During my weekend trip I stayed with a friend who gave me a tour all over Oxford. He brought me to dine at the dinning hall which inspired the hall in the Harry Potter movies, brought me to a Hockey game as well as showed me around all the beautiful sights that Oxford has to offer. My camera kept dying during this trip so I didn't get a whole lot …

Oxford university has weird customs
Turtle race
Detergent in fountain - surviving fish called Bubbles …

So today I continued with the Hop on Hop off Bus Tour. This style of tour was the best I've done so far. I learnt so many weird and wonderful facts. Like an underground train delivers books to underground libraries. The library here is entitled to all published works throughout the UK. The beautiful mansions that are in North Oxford were built and …

... old gothic shapes. Wandering around town we saw the old buildings of various colleges such as Queens, Trinity and Christ Church College, where they filmed parts of the Harry Potter movies. Seeking some shelter from the relentless rain we headed ...

... the "new" history I was after. Many of the buildings around Oxford were used for Harry Potter movies. One of these included Christ Church College's dining hall, which is used as the main hall at Hogwarts. We were in the dining hall and of course a ...

... a college.  Many of them were closed to the public (exams are coming soon).  The most famed school is Christ Church College, which has a very dramatic front gate and huge dining room that was featured in the Harry Potter movies (I've never seen ...

... who wrote Alice in Wonderland.... and most important of all it was used as a location in the Harry Potter films. Christ Church College, Oxford University Christ Church College, Oxford University Then I walked through Christ Church meadow, ...

... . Et cela a été une très bonne décision, car nous nous sommes retrouvé devant le Christ Church College, le plus anciens collège de l'université d'Oxford. Malgré le fait qu'il fallait payer l'entrée, et que c'était bondé de touristes, nous ...

... picturesque, but that characterization really ignores all the history and intellect of the place. The most spectacular was Christ Church College which gave much of the inspiration for Hogwarts  School in the Harry Potter movies. Had a nice ...

... Oxford's Universität besteht aus fast 40 über die gesamte Stadtfläche verteilte Colleges. Heutzutage sehr bekannt ist das Christ Church College. Der Speisesaal dort diente als Vorlage für einige Szenen in den Harry Potter Filmen. Entsprechend ist der ...

... narrow streets and often found ourselves at points of interest. We will update our photos soon with the Christ Church College and the oldest building in Oxford. While there we stopped at our first pub and had our first traditional English food. We ...

... break. The shopping mall was a throng of people and the museums crowded with children. A walk around the meadow of Christ Church college (yes, it has a meadow complete with cows and a river for boating around) and we discovered the rest of the student ...

... the Isis. We wiled away some time watching rowers train and soaked up the only sun this weekend has to offer. Exiting Christ Church college grounds, we took a moment to make a mandatory stop at the ´Alice Shop.´  Lewis Carroll was a Christ Church ...