A college with its own deer herd?
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hawkwing_lbOxford: still very pretty.
Look, there's a limited amount I can say here, right? K. took me around with his student card. Christ Church: pretty. Shiny quadrangle. Corpus Christi: old, and a bit crumbling, with a great garden with a raised walk. Prettiest. Teddy Hall (St. Edmund Hall): old. Weird. Library in a converted church in the middle of a graveyard: college chapel in the newest building on the grounds, an 18th-century thing with pillars. Has much character. New College: fucking brilliant in terms of architecture, with a chapel that takes the biscuit in terms of WOW FUCK THAT'S A LOT OF SCULPTURE BEHIND THE ALTAR, and grounds that back onto the medieval town wall - and an exit onto Magpie Lane, formerly, I am informed, Gropecunt Lane.
Magdalen College: fabulous cloister. Extensive grounds. Magdalen Grove, and the walk along the Cherwell: ducks, gorgeously smelling woodland flowers. Bridges. DEER. MAGDALEN COLLEGE HAS ITS OWN DEER HERD.
...That's slightly surreal. Also amazing. But mostly surreal.
Had a burger in the Queen's Lane Café: I've had three burgers out and about in Oxford and that was the best of them. (The Eagle and Child's also tasted like burger: the White Horse's didn't taste like much of anything.) Good helping of salad and chips too.
There is a lot of walking here. And then I went back up the High Street to St. Mary-the-Virgin church, which is a fine enough church I suppose, except that the lady in the gift shop was a bit sniffy about me being a student from Dublin rather than from Oxford when I went to pay my shot to climb the tower. (£2.50/student.)
The tower is... well. Do not go up if you are a wide person? There is a very narrow spiral stone staircase which was just about wide enough for me to go up, except at the narrow parts, where I went sideways. There is an excellent view of the town's rooftops from all four sides of the tower face: very windy, very narrow, a long way down. But some good architecture and decorative elements up close. Coming back down the stone spiral staircase is more difficult than going up.
Also, I went into Whittard's of Chelsea and bought shit. Couldn't resist.
Pictures on Flickr.
Look, there's a limited amount I can say here, right? K. took me around with his student card. Christ Church: pretty. Shiny quadrangle. Corpus Christi: old, and a bit crumbling, with a great garden with a raised walk. Prettiest. Teddy Hall (St. Edmund Hall): old. Weird. Library in a converted church in the middle of a graveyard: college chapel in the newest building on the grounds, an 18th-century thing with pillars. Has much character. New College: fucking brilliant in terms of architecture, with a chapel that takes the biscuit in terms of WOW FUCK THAT'S A LOT OF SCULPTURE BEHIND THE ALTAR, and grounds that back onto the medieval town wall - and an exit onto Magpie Lane, formerly, I am informed, Gropecunt Lane.
Magdalen College: fabulous cloister. Extensive grounds. Magdalen Grove, and the walk along the Cherwell: ducks, gorgeously smelling woodland flowers. Bridges. DEER. MAGDALEN COLLEGE HAS ITS OWN DEER HERD.
...That's slightly surreal. Also amazing. But mostly surreal.
Had a burger in the Queen's Lane Café: I've had three burgers out and about in Oxford and that was the best of them. (The Eagle and Child's also tasted like burger: the White Horse's didn't taste like much of anything.) Good helping of salad and chips too.
There is a lot of walking here. And then I went back up the High Street to St. Mary-the-Virgin church, which is a fine enough church I suppose, except that the lady in the gift shop was a bit sniffy about me being a student from Dublin rather than from Oxford when I went to pay my shot to climb the tower. (£2.50/student.)
The tower is... well. Do not go up if you are a wide person? There is a very narrow spiral stone staircase which was just about wide enough for me to go up, except at the narrow parts, where I went sideways. There is an excellent view of the town's rooftops from all four sides of the tower face: very windy, very narrow, a long way down. But some good architecture and decorative elements up close. Coming back down the stone spiral staircase is more difficult than going up.
Also, I went into Whittard's of Chelsea and bought shit. Couldn't resist.
Pictures on Flickr.
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Date: 2013-04-17 07:08 pm (UTC)Also, I once saw a student production of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in Magdalen Deer Park. Inside the fence. With the herd of deer trotting to and fro in the background, right there.
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Date: 2013-04-17 08:11 pm (UTC)That sounds amazing, though.