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Oxford
Travel Blogs from Oxford, United Kingdom
Day trip to Oxford
... guess what, you have to pay admission fees to get into the Christ Church, one of the largest and most famous college in Oxford University. At the ticket booth, there's a sign board showing the times that the dining hall is open to visitor. ...
In preparation for departure...
So, here I am, my room full of various suitcases, clothes flung haphazardly into a pile, medical supplies littered across the floor and the reality has just hit... I'm leaving very soon! In fact Sunday seems to be approaching at an ever accelerated pace ...
Remove the film of familiarity
"The domestic architecture of a pre-modern world was that it was not good to be alone. You would go mad. Today as Brits live alone at a rate of 40% of the population, the western mode of exploration is proving one's being." Dr. Tom Faul Today I ...
Our last days in the UK (hopefully not forever!)
... . Allan & Callian enjoyed a lecture on the "Romance of the Middle Ages" in the Bodliean Library - hence their lateness! From Oxford we headed onto Newbold College to spend the night and to try very hard to pack our bags so as not to incur extra ...
Tea Time!
... in the city for a classic English afternoon tea. We had asked Peter yesterday where there is an inexpensive place to have tea in Oxford and he gave us a couple places. But I actually just went online and searched and founded a nice place right in the city ...
Week 3 of Classes Down!
Two days of classes down once again! Its still so strange to me that we only have classes 2 days a week here, but really I should not be complaining. Tuesday, I had another one of my Cross Cultural Psych classes over on the Headington Campus which ...
Punting For A Pint
The day had finally arrived. To test out how hard it is to drive and steer a boat with a really long pole. The boats we learned are called punts, and to drive one is called punting. So let's just establish now that when ...
Jet-lag
... sugar water which conjures memories of cough syrup and a lovely conversation with a Londoner who had studied in Damascus and Oxford; his mother being from Bangladesh and his father from Yemen he had a wealth of knowledge regarding the philosophers of the ...
Oxford Music Festival
... whipping his clothes off and going for a dip. We were also treated to a race with more history , rivalry and suspense than the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (also more imbecility - just made up that word!) - It was Finch v Finch in the punting race, ...
Trip to Scotland, Booked!
... flight, which means an early morning. We don’t have a huge problem with that, its just that buses from Harcourt Hill to the Oxford Bus Station don’t leave at 5 am so that would mean we would have to take a taxi which is expensive! So we came ...
Sunday Driver
... got onto the internet and bought a sat nav pack program to use instead of OVI. By the time that we got to Oxford, I had successfully navigated London city, and the M4, made numerous wrong turns, I think at one point Scott was going to offer to ...
023 - Daydreaming in Oxford
This was a 2 day trip to see a friend who was studying at Oxford Brookes University. November was a great time to see Oxford as the weather was misty. The mist gave the spires of Oxford a mysterious and magical look and I think made my trip more ...
Majestic spires....
... to see a city filled with majestic old buildings and towering spires. Spires is a very important part of tourist information for Oxford. They talk about them a lot, because there are a lot of them! They seem to adorn every church, ...
No luggage in London
... tad crazy with my camera and have lost count of how many churches, old buildings and gargoyles I have captured on film. Oxford is a prestigious and historic English University city, although it seems more like a town compared to London’s hustle and ...
Not posh enough!
We got up bright and early so the car wouldn't be getting clamped in our car park and made our way to Oxford and the Cotswold's. We arrived in Oxford and after a quick drive we decided to do the drive through the Cotswold’s first. We drove through a ...
University Church and the grand view
... rather intimidating climb up the narrow spiral stone steps--aided by rope pulls as bannisters. From there we went to the Oxford Museum and saw displays of history from Roman times on to the late 19th century. Home for leftover pizza. Around ...
Love is..something, something, something..harmony!
... fun of the guys, but they joined in as we rolled our eyes. On Monday, we took another walking tour of Oxford. This time, Professor Connery showed us around a few museums, including the Natural History Museum of Oxford and Pitts Museum. ...
Oxford
... -Avon. We arrived in Oxford, and I was overwhelmed by the old, and I mean very old, buildings. We toured a small part of Oxford University. There are over 30 colleges at Oxford and there really isn't a 'campus’ to speak of. Oxford is known for its ...
Shakespeare, chocolate and Oxford
... . But I'm glad to say that most of it made its way back to the States. We drove to Oxford, where we quickly found the B&B that we'd pre-booked in Stratford. It was fairly pleasant, ...
Chilling out with Penny Pops
Got intellectual and toured the sights of Oxford. Highlight was the Harry Potter Cloisters and a big White Horse on a ...
bestest vacay ever!
mostly stayed in oxford cuz london was too poluted for me at the tym - n i luuv how they hav " look left / look right" on the floor or rather ...
Damn Planes
... took a bus to Oxford. When we got there we met with our professor, Dr. Allen Chapman, who took us on a walking tour of the Oxford University area in the rain... One kid from the Bemidji group decided it was a good idea to buy a liter of vodka at the ...
a few days with Sergio
... seen each other for 2 months so were really happy to finally see each other again :) We spent the weekend doing some shopping in Oxford, going for a nice dinner, cooking for friends etc... Its nice to be able to relax a bit and I wish I could stay ...
... and I spent how long in Wong?
... ). Spending anytime in the UK will bankrupt you ASAP. That said, I bailed out of London the day after I arrived and headed to Oxford. This was more of what I was expecting to see in England. Puts McGill to shame. To shame. bahh. If people built this ...
Oxford & Stratford Upon Avon - Day 36
... , and prison and been remodeled at least twice. In 1878 the Prison Commissioners took over the site and Her Majesty’s Prison Oxford was established. The prison, sometimes housing three men to a cell. The prison finally closed in 1996. Since 1996 the ...
Amazing Oxford
On a beautiful england morning we did a 2 hrs drive to this amazing town of oxford.Old architecture,very fascinating. The first thing we did was punting with a bottle of wine.... Lots of places to see...Bridge of Sighs,Christchurch College,Radcliffe ...