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Oxford
Travel Blogs from Oxford, United Kingdom
Villages exist in real life
... real live village(right out of fairy tales), and spending a day with his mom, who is a teacher, in her elementary school. Oxford itself is a dignified, quieter city, you can smell academia in the air. It's difficult to separate the university from the ...
Oxford and Winchcombe
Hi Everyone, On Thursday we leave for David and Gill's place in Winchcombe, via Oxford. We get the bus to Oxford and David and Gill will meet us there. After a look around David's old college (St John's) we'll head off back to their place via some nice ...
Day 11 - Oxford
Day 11 - Oxford - Drank coffee in Manchester - Met Junior in Brumy (Birmingham) - Starbucks - Got Oxford late - Jo gave us a quick tour - Stayed in Jo's share house - Jo loves Bristol - Quirky Oxford pubs - Parking fine £100 On the way ...
Blenheim Palace and the Last Weekend of Term
... I went on the tour bus with everyone back to Oxford, and ended up bringing a group of fellow students on a mini-tour of Oxford. One hilarious moment was when we were walking along Beaumont street and someone asked me a question about the town, and I went ...
Day 4
... were all nervous and excited to leave London and Richard's house a city and place we had grown to love. After arriving in Oxford, we took a walking tour which took us to Oriel College and Jesus College. The buildings were beautiful, and each had a ...
Visiting Oxford
17 May Thursday Today we visited Oxford with Claire Richards, one of our BPC colleagues. Actually, Claire was attending a conference in Oxford and offered for us to ride up and back with her. While she was at her ...
Visiting El and Phil
We had a lovely time with El and Fil in Oxford. Went punting on the River - Fil was a pro straight away, El was great and had some great concentration faces, Josh zig zagged along the river... I just went from one side to the other, no really making any ...
Day 10, Hay-on-Wye -Oxford: A rabbit with a watch
... train. We did have an hour wait on our switch at Worcester though which wasn't exactly thrilling. Finally we caught the train to Oxford and then a short bus ride (we are the mistresses of public transport) out to our B&B tonight- which is even more ...
Pictures
... posting this entry to put up a bunch of my pictures finally. I leave for an hour toward Portsmouth to stay with a friend there. I'm leaving Oxford not to be back until mid January. So I'm sort of out on my own for the first time! Kyla and I decided ...
Michaelmas Term Week 4
... them early since the libraries are only open for a few hours over the weekend. I also really enjoy the walk through the Oxford University Parks to get to the English faculty library. My tutorial went very well this week; we studied Robert Browning and ...
Burns Night
... , a little dreary, but bustling and busy with students. Tonight we took part in a tradition called Burns Night. Most of the Oxford colleges are having special dinners in honor of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. We were invited to go to dinner at St. ...
Cruising Around Oxford
... at Simon and Katy's house to catch up on some admin jobs before we made our way to Paddington Train Station to catch a train to Oxford. Here we were picked up by Mish's good family friend Dan who has been living in Oxford for 2 years. It was ...
The ceremonial first post...
... to say after taking this trip then there really is no hope for me! So right now I'm still stuck in front of the PC in Oxford, waiting for my work permit to clear for the biolabs in Singapore so that I can book my flights. There's not a lot I can do ...
Three days to go....
I can't believe there are only three days to go!!! Rhiannon and Rachel flew off to Hong Kong on Monday evening to stay with Rhiannon's uncle for a week. I hope they got there okay, but can't be certain as am yet to hear from them! Planning and packing is ...
On the Thames
Today we were joined by Heathers brother Adrian and his wife Jill,they arrived on the Friday evening and quickly settled in as we had a big day planned for the day after yes we were going to join the Thames,I my self had quietly got a bit worked up ...
Rosh Hashanah in Oxford
... huge wooden door, one can get a peep of a cloistered courtyard, and a feel for the architectural differences of the colleges. Oxford students each belong to an individual college--a system unlike anything we know in the US. Each college has its own ...
OSI Pharmaceuticals
... the world. I've started a new job with a promising company, an impressive building, good colleagues and in the beautiful city of Oxford. On my ninth day my position is made redundant. However, as the saying goes 'every cloud has a silver lining'. Now I'm ...
Colleges galore
Today Jen, Holly (her house mate) and I caught the bus to Oxford. Oxford is the other famous university in England. The first colleges were built in the 13th century. The town is full of colleges- beautiful old buildings. There are 39 colleges and 17,000 ...
Wet, wet, wet
... holidays and feeling really bored. Summer here is dismal! Last summer was so much warmer. A week ago I bought a cheap bus ticket for Oxford, decided to come here again as there was more to see than last time I was here. It was raining the whole way ...
Lightning Trip to Oxford
... friends. Every englishman was returning from Majorca or Mallorca that day, and it was absolute chaos. Four hours later I was in Oxford having cursed easyjet and british airports the entire journey, but being met by all three of my cousins stopped me ...
Five weeks to go!
... world. Having come this close (holds up thumb and forefinger millimeters apart) to getting a permanent job in one of the Oxford hospitals three times over the last fourteen months, I finally gave up and decided to do something constructive with my ...
Americans
... ; Berlin. So today (Thursday) I did one of the out of London bus tours with the Fosters to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge & Oxford. Windsor is a neat little town and the castle is something to see. It is huge! I was rather surprised about the town around ...
Oxord, but without Christo
... guide, had a huge knowledge base as well as a great sense of humour. He was a source of wonderful historical trivia which made Oxford University come to life for us. The Bodleian Library was one of the sights we stopped by - and our ...
Culture In Oxford
... use of each of the rooms. He told some rather amusing stories about the fasantating building's history and its significance to Oxford University. It remains one of the few buildings in the centre of Oxford that belongs to the Uinversity as the ...
English, WHAT?! Part II
... in my mind was our visit to Christ Church College through which prime ministers, road scholars and other interesting people have recieve their Oxford educations. As many of you will know, it is also the site of some of the filming for the Harry Potter ...
Four days to go!
... the trip and the Women of the Year award lunch this Monday 16th October, especially on Sky News, Channel 5 news, local TV news in Oxford and hopefully London as well as some local radio in Oxford. It will be great to hear from friends while we're away ...