Blogs from Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 46

Let's see...it's been ten days since my last entry. And I feel like I've done quite a bit in that amount of time. So, here we go... Over last weekend, we went dancing twice at the Purple Turtle. It is becoming my favorite place to go because we always have a good time dancing there. As you all know, I'm not a very good dancer in any way, shape or form, but I'm trying to learn to dance. As a part of this quest, I went to a social dance lesson with my friend John Paul on Monday night. It was about a 30 minute walk from St. Michael's Hall (which I stupidly did in heels), followed by an hour long Samba lesson (again in heels), and the night ended in another 30 minute walk in ... read more

Today we had a full day tour booked to Oxford, Stratford, Warwick Castle and Cotswold’s Tour, we were meant to go to Blenheim Palace but the tour was canned. First stop was Warwick Castle, where we found out just how mean and nasty they were with regard to torture. Some of the items they used were brutal, some either stretched you, used for restricting you so they could burn you with molten lead, drop you from the roof with weights on your feet to dislocate you. I know, it makes you sick!! After here we headed through the Cotswold’s to Stratford where we saw Shakespeare’s birthplace, and wandered through the family home. We headed to Oxford via a pub lunch, meal was beautiful!! At Oxford, we ventured into Christ Church College, where parts of the Harry ... read more

Well, let's see, I've definitely enjoyed this first week in Oxford. I haven't done all that much, but, even so, it's been great. We've gone on two field trips already. Our first one was last Sunday (September 3rd) and we went to Glocester Cathedral and Berkeley Castle. Both places were so beautiful. Glocester Cathedral had some of the most amazing stained glass I've ever seen. On Wednesday, which happened to be our longest field trip and my birthday, we went to Wells Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey. I'm starting to realize that cathedrals are all very beautiful, but also very similiar. But, the best part of Wednesday was that we did a drive by (literally, we just drove by) of Stonehenge. I wish we could have stopped, but even so I was still able to take a ... read more

I realise fully that I am writing this blog completely out of sequence (writing about a European city along with blogging on Kerala after my re-location to these shores for at least a few years) but my 24 long years at Oxford has undoubtedly made me fall in love with this magical city and hecne these few lines on Oxford! Oxford in England is undoubtedly the oldest university in the english speaking world and has been in continued existance for more than 9 centuries now. As an internationally known centre of education, it naturally attracts students and scholors from right accross the globe. It lies about 90 kms north-west of London. A medium sized city with population totalling approximately 140,000, Oxford is refreshingly different from all other cities I am lucky enough to have visited so ... read more

Well, I decided it is about time for a post about what things have been like here in Oxford... This might be kind of random, as it will just be covering a few events from the last week and a half. First of all, the weather this week has been drastically different from the first week. I have been wearing my jacket every day, all the time because it is quite cool and windy here. Additionally, it is pretty much always overcast and rains about once a day (though not usually really hard or for very long at once.) It is nice having the cooler (and much more Oxford-typical) weather...it makes for much nicer sleeping conditions!! Two Wednesdays ago we went to Sandown Park, which is one of the larger horseracing tracks in the UK. It ... read more