After Windsor we headed to Oxford to visit the university. Unfortunately we didn’t spend a whole lot of time there or get to go on much of a tour inside. From the outside it is huge, amazing, and do my dismay only costs about 15,000 GBP to attend. That’s 15,000 GBP or $21,600 for all 4 years not just one. The school itself apparently is the 3rd oldest surviving school in the world and has been around since 1167. When we got there Oxford had just won the annual rowing, yes rowing, competition with Cambridge and there was all this chalk graffiti on the dorms about it. The tour guide said it was there thing to write accomplishments on the dorm walls. I love books and was really disappointed about not being able to go into one of the oldest Libraries, libraries that were opened in the 1600’s and has over 8 million books. I know it’s sort of lame, but one of the coolest things was I got to see the Harry Potter Stairs; the ones where all the kids show up on their first day. The huge HP dining room is also supposed to be based on the dining room at Oxford, but it was just one more thing we didn’t get to see. Bummer. Here is what we did see …1. The stairs.
2. The ceiling above. Really pretty.
3. Court yard of the Christ Church College
4. Radcliffe Camera. Holds the English, History, and Theology collections of the University’s Bodleian Library.
5. Graffiti wall of the dorms.
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