Blogs from Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 39

Today has been a blast!! Last night I made lots of new friends. More people from the college who are working here over the summer. Funny thing was they knew who I was from my birthday. It was so much fun. Today we went to Bath. It was okay. The Roman Baths were pretty cool, but I would have rather been able to wonder around the city by myself than have a guided tour. Tonight, dinner was a James Bond theme. One of the guys sang a song and the dinner was AMAZING! I bought a black dress with I love. I also bought a orange clutch and a new necklace. Just wanted to write something real quick. I'm out to go have a good time with everyone! Cheers!! :)... read more

Sunday, 15th July, 2007 Yesterday we had a very long day, and today too. We started our travel in the Tourist Information, of course! In this travel went all the students of the Weymouth College, very nice people, so very nice travel. We needed many buses, because we were and are many a lot of people. We arrived in Oxford about eleven thirty, so in the bus the people were very boring. When we arrived we went to the Oxford University and in groups we had a tour guiade that explain us all the things about this University. Ben, the guiade, studyed in this University, so he was very exiting when he talked. When tour guiade finished we had about two hours to ahopping. All the peopple shop the same jersey, so they taked after ... read more

I awoke this morning and found that Elizabeth had gone on a mid-day run... unfortunately for my stomach, I had promised her the night before we would go to breakfast as we did not dine on the usual midnight donor kabob. Belly growling, I desperately waited, and waited, and waited.. the girl obviously has stamina because it was about 1 1/2 hours and 8 dried prunes later that she arrived... now my stomach was growling for other reasons! With the prune bag empty we headed to the streets for a more traditional meal.. however, finding the traditional breakfast that had blossomed from mere desire to an absolute requirement was more difficult at 2 in the afternoon.. thank you Sophia2, a cafe tucked away next to the Oxford castle, and thank you Hormel (your baked beans ... read more

I need to say-Oxford is a little big and there are a lot of colleges in the Oxford university,but I really had fun there.I visited around with a big group in the noon and all of us got hungry.I wanted to eat lunch at that time but all of us still waited for the lastest moment to have our lunch.Then, I went to visit the town with my leader when everyone went shopping.It is a special day for me because I have never gone with my leader when we go visiting.We went to see some of the famous buildings,like the river of Oxford university.My leader told me that there has a boat competition between Cambridge university and Oxford university every year on this river.We also visited Oxford university museum and Pitt River museum.There are a lot ... read more

Blenheim Palace & Oxford Europe » United Kingdom » England » Oxfordshire » Oxford By USinUKJuly 11th 2007 Today was a decent weather day - mostly cloudy and cool but no hard rain, just a few sprinkles. We started at Bleheim Palace, a grandiose, over-the-top palace built in the early 1700s by John Vanbrugh (who also did Castle Howard that we visited earlier in our trip). Photos not allowed inside, but it was very opulent - gold everywhere. The buildings and grounds were of enormous scale, hard to capture in pictures. Next it was Oxford - ... read more