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Oxford
Travel Blogs from Oxford, United Kingdom
Calling Oxford Home
... be great to receive some good old fashion mail. My address is: Abby James A8D Warneford Hall Roosevelt Drive Headington Oxford, OX37XA. Just to be a bit more demanding, keep the emails coming, aussie224@hotmail.com! Love ya all, Abs PS ...
photos on flickr
Getting myself together for heathrow and on to India this Sat and one mission was getting the newer photos up so here is the link to flickr to see them. http://www.flickr.com/photos/12253367@N02/ Or you can use the last link and just look at the new ...
The OTHER One
... stuffing our bellies, we walked through town and past the pub where C.S. Lewis hung out with J.R. Tolkien, visited the Oxford University Press bookstore where I bought a book (how fitting), and saw the Oxford University Press building. The building ...
Procrastination #2 : Top 10 New Experiences.
... shape. New Experience #1: I had bad airline food for the first time -- so exciting. I have two words for United: Lean Cuisine. New Experience #2: I rode in a double-decker bus for the first time. It always looks as ...
Shopping and Punting
... friends Kathryn and John and children for a lovely afternoon of Punting (rowing a small flatbottom boat along this little canal around Oxford) and a picnic. it rained a little, Elvis tried his hand at Punting (I was too afraid I'd lose my balance ...
Oxford...my Arrival
... I couldn't figure out how to work the phone, and then I realized that my phone cards were international FROM the United States. Damn... I boarded a bus to Oxford, and when he asked me where I was going, I simply responded "I don't know, just get me to ...
a quick stay in Oxford
... my first Indian food since California -- chicken korma, mmmm! Then I was off to Paddington Station to take the train to Oxford, to visit Sarah! After being quickly introduced to her college (Lady Margaret Hall), and meeting a lot of her friends, we ...
Yuppies!!
... , I just picked a place on the map half-way between Manchester and London. And the only place I've heard of, was Oxford. Thus I went.... I arrived late am and easily found my hostel. Since there is only 2 hostels in the town, it wasn't ...
Home sweet home
After nearly four months of South American adventure I have finally landed back on English soil armed with a bundle of tales and an even bigger bundle of photographs. South America really is the continent that has it all. From the snow-capped mountains ...
David's Stay in Oxford: The Beginning
... been back from Madrid for less than three days and was still recovering from my cat/smoke/big city allergies when David arrived at the Oxford bus station, Gloucester Green, at 11:30. I walked over to meet him, we hugged, I coughed, and I led him through ...
Goodbye
... Oxford, trying not to sound to cliché it really does feels like yesterday that it all started. Over my three months in Oxford I have been able to make some amazing friends, friends that it will be very hard to leave, I have shared such a big ...
Early Planning stage
Well we still have over 4 months until the great adventure starts and it seems like an age away at the moment. So far we have got our flights sorted, arranged accommodation in Australia and have started buying the travelling gear we need, not to mention ...
English Country Side
... some backyards. We ran into a few sheep and made it back up the hills in time for breakfast. Next, we headed over towards Oxford and found another B&B in Woodstock - just 15 minutes outside of Oxford. The one was even more remote and the road seems ...
How to stay optimistic...
Well I'm back. And stuffs going down already. How to find out? Join me... theweeklyone.blogspot.com Peas. ...
a spot of tea with Lucy
Made it to England today after a couple of planes and a couple of buses. Last time I was here was for a very sad occasion so it is really nice to have some tea with my good friend Lucy and plan our journey tomorrow. We are headed to the End of the Road ...
Oxford oxymorons
... didn't get sick on Contiki, but is feeling a bit awful today, she is getting Chris's cold. Today is our last day in Oxford, we spent yesterday walking through the town, it is much smaller than we thought. Tried looking for Prince William for Emma, but ...
The Oxford Comma
... to Christ Church. To begin, colleges in the UK are not the same as they are in the United States. A college in the UK, especially at Oxford or Cambridge (collectively known as Oxbridge), is simply a place where the student will eat, sleep, ...
Week 1 at Oxford
I am having the best time so far at St. Anne's. Oxford is on one hand the quintessential college town, and yet it has its own quirks. To begin with, the "campus" goes on throughout the entire city. This means that it can take 30 minutes or more just to ...
Ausflug nach Oxford
... . Ich habe mir die "University of Oxford" immer als ein riesengrosses Gebäude vorgestellt, was jedoch falsch ist. Oxford's Universität besteht aus fast 40 über die gesamte Stadtfläche verteilte Colleges. Heutzutage sehr bekannt ist das Christ Church ...
D-Day
After 10 years in the making, the day has finally arrived. I've been talking about going travelling for so long that actually going has become a running joke among friends (miff, jonny and nelson - I post this entry from Thailand so think one ...
An Oxford Tourist Weekend
... of my friends from Rice, Patrick Snyder, came to visit me and we did practically every touristy thing imaginable in Oxford. He is a mechanical engineering student studying abroad at University of London, Queen Mary this semester. Saturday my friend ...
2 weeks to go :)
Sitting at work and getting very excited about the fact that it is now only 2 weeks till we go on our adventure. ...
A St. Anne's Weekend
... lovely as usual; I am still far from tired of all the Oxford traditions. Saturday I went to see Shared Experience's Bronte at the Oxford Playhouse with some fellow English students, and it was one of the most powerful plays I have ever seen. It was also ...
Going back to University Oxford Style
... it in the movie. The ground were unbelieveable though. Huge old stone buildings with perfectly manacured lawns. We all throughly enjoyed Oxford, especially when we walked 5 miles out of town and had to find our way back. Thankfully we stumbled upon a ...
First Day on Tour
... with college students and their bicycles), and found pleasure in seeing all the beautiful architecture. GRANNY; Oxford is renowned for intellectual and architectural brilliance. I was really looking forward to seeing the Bodleian library ...
A visit to Oxfordshire
The next day I journeyed by train to Oxford, the land of higher learning. It's a beautiful place and absolutely crawling with students of all types. The entire city centre is essentially the university, and it certainly feels that way. There are many ...
Oxford
Got to Oxford so far! Henley regatta finished on the Wednesday for the mighty Van Trevstinov crew thanks to a speedy crew from Bristol. Pretty successful for a scratch crew nonetheless. Had we got through to today getting to Heathrow might have been a ...