Blogs from Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 41

So here I am in Oxford. I got my passport two days before I left! Talk about cutting it close! The flight from Detroit to Baltimore was fine. Didn't have much time in Baltimore to mess around. The international terminal was way far away from where I landed so it took me awhile to walk there. When I got there, I was one of the last people to check-in, and the lady told me I took the last seat! Thank God I didn't get booted from the flight or something. British Airways is a pretty nice airline. The seats were actually pretty comfy (for airplane seats) and the food wasn't bad either. I actually slept really good on the plane; just put on my eyemask thingy and was out cold. I actually slept so good I ... read more

Julia wasn't feeling entirely well today, so we decided to do something that she wouldn't mind missing quite as much. This happened to be one of the places I was most excited about seeing- Oxford. We visited the Ashmolean Museum and I was very disappointed to find the floor where the pre-Raphaelite collection is kept closed for renovation. A few were still being exhibited, and with all the other fine art and antiques it was well worth going. We stopped for lunch at The Eagle and Child (meeting place of the Inklings) and enjoyed some good pub fare just outside of the Rabbit Room, where Lewis and Tolkein, among others, met every Tuesday. After this we went on a 2 hour guided tour of the colleges and university. Our guide was fantastic and I could have ... read more

I leave in four and a half days. Four and a half days? How has it come up so fast and I've not even noticed? I'm still in my hometown, Oxford, and busy preparing, visiting friends and relatives, doing a few days work for a slice of money before I go. This post is in part a test as I've never used this site before but also a glimpse of the beginning of this adventure I suppose. As of now, I can't decide if I'm disorganised or not. I think it's more a case of casual organisation that leads everything to fall into place at the last minute. I haven't packed, in fact I don't have half the things to pack yet. I'm going to London tomorrow to buy those and also pick up my ... read more

helsinki was fantastic i hope to go back one day it was a lovely city every night they would have bands playing in the park the markets where great i went to the art gallary which the art in there took my breath away also went over to talin in estonia that was really good found out alot about the history and also went to a pub where they where wearing there tradition outfits. after the 25th ellen went home to australia and i carried on to england once more i was in london over night and that was long enough and then i went off to plymounth where i went out partying of caurse the day that i was leaving i walked out the front door and found police and corriner there because someone had ... read more

Oh dear, two days is not enough for Oxford. I think I could spend weeks and weeks here. There’s so much history. In the morning we met outside Blackwell’s bookstore for a literary tour of the college. But first, we went through the bookstore which has the largest number of books for sale in one room anywhere—over half a million books in one room. See what I mean? I could spend three days in there alone, at a minimum. The literary tour was fascinating—we saw the houses where C. S. Lewis and Tolkien lived when they were first writing their books, the library used to film the interiors of the Hogwarts library, and some very impressive architecture which I have now forgotten all the details of. One warning about Oxford: don’t step on the grass. I ... read more