First stop, the India Studies Center. Notice the little elephant on the weather vane?
Where the Oxford English Dictionary was originally published.
This alley was shot in Harry Potter movies and in Jack the Ripper, but I really can't place where it is in the Harry Potter movies. If anyone can remember, you'll win a special prize from me.
Oxford's own version of the Venice Bridge of Assize.
This ugly house is actually the former of home of Edmund Halley, discoverer of Halley's comet! That funny box on top of the house is where his observatory was. :)
Radcliffe Square, the oldest square in Oxford.
The Radcliffe Camera, a unique round library!
All Souls College--so exclusive it doesn't even have students! Every one hundred years, there is a very important dinner held here called the Mallard Dinner, so named because when the college was being built, a lone Mallard duck would not get out of the way and thus became part of the school's foundation. Now, every hundred years, fellows of the college and important guests dress up like construction workers from the 1200s and chase a mallard duck around the lawn. Very exclusive!!
One of Oxford's oldest churches. St Magdalen or Mary, I can't quite remember. This is where Oxfam originated as well as key strategic maneuvers of the Protestant Reformation.
They went the extra mile w/the decorations at historic Merton College.
The Merton Chapel, the oldest chapel in Oxford. Back in the day, if you didn't go to chapel every single day, you couldn't get a degree from Oxford University. Now it's optional, but many still keep the tradition.
The guy on the right is Merton himself. He's holding a money bag b/c he knows that's what he was good for. :)
The queen's room overlooks this quad. Whenever the Queen comes to visit, she always stays in a room in this college.
Mob quad. The oldest quad in Oxford.
Inside Merton Chapel
That's Bill Clinton's old dorm room during his Rhodes Scholar days at University College! Apparently, this is where he "smoked, but did not inhale."
The Sheldonian. This is where Oxford students receive their diplomas at the end of the long academic haul.
Oxford is full of gargoyles. I like this guy personally. :)
