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Peeking through an entrance to All Souls College.
Friday 30th June
I breakfast at the buffet and then take pastries and muffins back to the room for Mandy.
We decide, after some debate, to taxi across to Heathrow Hertz. The shuttle times didn't line up and the time saving we think would be considerable. We jump in a nice new Nissan rental and head off towards Birmingham via Oxford.
It's an easy hours drive before we reach Oxford. We drive almost right into the centre and then park next to Magdalen College. We choose to stay for 2 hours and find our first challenge is to get change for parking. The UK introduced new 1 pound coins yet all the parking only takes the old 1 pound coins. I try two shops and meet others with the same problems before getting lucky with some change.
Mandy has a bite to eat, just coffee for me, at a little local cafe and then we just stroll looking at the colleges etc for the next two hours.
I breakfast at the buffet and then take pastries and muffins back to the room for Mandy.
We decide, after some debate, to taxi across to Heathrow Hertz. The shuttle times didn't line up and the time saving we think would be considerable. We jump in a nice new Nissan rental and head off towards Birmingham via Oxford.
It's an easy hours drive before we reach Oxford. We drive almost right into the centre and then park next to Magdalen College. We choose to stay for 2 hours and find our first challenge is to get change for parking. The UK introduced new 1 pound coins yet all the parking only takes the old 1 pound coins. I try two shops and meet others with the same problems before getting lucky with some change.
Mandy has a bite to eat, just coffee for me, at a little local cafe and then we just stroll looking at the colleges etc for the next two hours.
Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning "room" in Latin) - an 18th-century, Palladian-style academic library and reading rooms.
Standing at the back entrance to The Covered Market Oxford
A lovely vine covered building on New Inn Hall St
Oxford Castle is a large, partly ruined Norman medieval castle on the western side of Oxford. Originally built in 9th century it has been a castle, a prison and now a tourist site with hotel and restaurant.
The Great Gate of The Bodleian Library - The main research library of Oxford is the UK's second largest library, established in 1602 and containing over 11 million works.
The entrance to the Old Bodleian, known as the Proscholium. These two photos (previous and this) were taken from within the Old Schools Quad.
Hertford Bridge, often called "the Bridge of Sighs", is a skyway joining two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane in Oxford
The bridge is often referred to as the Bridge of Sighs because of its supposed similarity to the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice however it bears a closer resemblance to the Rialto Bridge in Venice.
Bath place, a quaint old cobbled street.
A quaint stone building on Holywell St.
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