Blogs from Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 35

Hello Again, I hope you all are doing well? Yesterday afternoon was amazing. A couple of my friends and I when walking through a large public meadow called ‘Port Meadow’ to a country pub called ‘The Trout Inn’. I was a beautiful day! We strolled along the Thames, which is called the Isis in Oxford, and there are horses that graze freely in meadow that we petted. Then on the way back from having dinner at the pub there was an amazing sun set. I was a bit worried about not being able to go out into nature much while I was here, but this meadow is a 2 minute walk from my flat. I will be going there as often as possible. Last night I also went to a performance of Hamlet at the Oxford ... read more

Fiona's last day at the Oxford English Centre was on Friday. I have ten more work days at WISC. We went to St Andrews Church (C of E) for the last time on Sunday. We will miss our friends and community there greatly. Our flat is filled with boxes are we prepare for the big move. We have a busy couple of weeks ahead before we begin our travels. On Sunday we (finally) saw the Lion King in London. Before the performance, we intended to meet Igor for lunch to talk about travel in the Balkans, but the train service between Oxford and London was late. In the end Igor met us at the theatre. In ten minutes he referred to points of interest on a giant map of the former-Yugoslavia and then generously left the ... read more

Well well, greetings to all those that have found this page, its lovely to have you along. I found out about this travelblog thinga-me-giga today and I've been talking about getting some photos through to all the beautiful people back home and around the place, so this looks like a pretty nice way of doing it. So here we go. Its been over a year since I departed Gods own. The plan is to write a report for each destination visited with a few photos thrown in, but in the meantime how about we do a quick recap... I left NZ in April last year, spending 2 weeks in Thailand on route to London. Once in London I headed straight up to Newcastle to outstay my welcome with Kristin's sister Ann and her family Alan, Cameron ... read more

Wow, it's been 9 months since my last post, and looooads has happened since, where to start.... OK, firstly the best news, and that is we have decided to try and go to Australia again, after not going after NZ we were a bit disappointed for a few months but then gave up on going on a Working Holiday Visa as it is only 2 years until I am too old to get one (30) ... and we got on with our lives did some things and then in the last few weeks we have decided that what we want to do we can do here in the UK or over in OZ, but the difference being that we would be much happier doing it in OZ and also now that OZ have changed the WHV ... read more

As so often happens when you are camping the moment we even thought about setting up our tent it started to teem from the heavens. So much for our sunny weekend in Oxford.... the English forecasters and the English weather had failed us again. Nevermind, we were here now and our friend from Adelaide who was here on business was picking us up to visit the nearby Blenheim Palace soon. It would be great to see him and catch up on all the news from home. Our first impression of Oxford as we walked through the city that morning was that it was very pretty but completely over run with large and loud groups of Spanish and American students, complete with matching backpacks or jumpers and not much consideration for anyone else sharing the streets. The ... read more