Oxford

Oh Wren, what don't you build?

Today Karen and I enjoyed a day free of classes at a University.

Irony suits us.

Anyways, we took a bus to Oxford. It was a glorious 1 hour trip (child's play compared to the Paris bus ride) and were dropped off right in front of Christ Church. What an environment! The sun broke out just as we stepped onto the grounds of the meadow and the beautiful gate tower designed by none other than Sir Christopher Wren beckoned us into the the corridors of the learned. Karen and I got to stroll through the dining hall (where Harry Potter was filmed, woooo!), the Cathedral and Tom's Quad.

Hufflepuff fo life

Lewis Carroll was a maths professor at this college and I adored how there are little components of Alice in Wonderland found throughout the buildings. A lovely campus and a lovely town. For lunch I ate a delicious goat cheese and pesto panini with an Orangina, yum! We browsed through the Covered Market where vegetables, meats, cheeses and all sorts of marvelous foods were being sold. During my trip I found that it was rather bothersome how one had to pay to be admitted to most of the campuses, you can totally walk within the UW for free F.Y.I. but such is life and the college has been around since the 12th century, so they have earned tourist money.

Pulchritudinous

Fancy Oxford way of saying beautiful

My favorite stops were Christ Church, the Covered Market, the Radcliffe Camera and the Bridge of Sighs. There is such a conglomeration of history in this city, the buildings prove it. At moments I wished Peter was around for some scathing architectural commentary or salacious, historical gossip. Maybe next time.

Sighing at the Bridge of Sighs:

I take things literally

Karen and I got two pot pies and triple fudge cookies for the bus ride and headed home, if I learned anything at Oxford, it is that I love food.