What a beautiful little city Oxford is; the "City of Dreaming Spires" as it's called. Filled with the beautiful architecture of renowned university buildings, colleges, libraries and museums. The centre is relatively small so you can walk everywhere in 10-15 minutes, there's excellent bus services and relatively few tourists. Above is the iconic Radcliffe Camera library building as seen from the University Church tower.
The High Street showing spires on churches and facades.
Treasures in the Ashmolean museum span millennia, from f ex a Babylonian story about the creation of the world in exquisitely fine cuneiform script, to a lovely pointillist view of Éragny and its church by Pissarro.
The Botanical Gardens are packed with a richness of plants and trees and are very well-maintained. They are bordered on one side by the river Cherwell, seen here passing under Magdalen Bridge and enjoyed by people on a variety of boats.
The terrace of a pub has screens to watch the cricket, where we saw the first match of the Hundred competition interrupted by a fox. It ran round the field two-three times before finding an escape route.
And we visited Blackwell's bookstore, where I'd ordered before online but was delighted to see it for real. Photo shows the rear of the basement. Above it are three more floors plus a second building two doors down. Literature lovers are spoiled for choice here.
I can fill this blog many times over with photographs I took while there, but the best thing you can do is discover Oxford for yourself. Recommended!
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