Oxford

My sister and brother-in-law came to town this weekend and we spent Saturday in Oxford. It takes a little more than an hour by train from London to get to Oxford and it is a really charming town. 

I love a full English Breakfast and I love a good pasty as well. This place in Oxford has a pasty filled with some of the essentials in an English Breakfast.

When we got ours, it didn't look quite how the advertisement showed it. It wasn't the greatest pasty I've had, but the idea is interesting. 

The Oxford campus is amazing!

Here we are outside one of the buildings. 

Below is a photo of the Hertford Bridge that connects two parts of Hertford College in Oxford. 

Below are photos from the Oxford Covered Market. They had some great cheese and meat stores. 

Millionaire bars and flapjacks are really popular here and this place had a ton of different varieties. A millionaire bar is made up of shortbread, caramel, and chocolate. A British flapjack is a sweet bar made with oats and honey. 

Inside the covered market is this milkshake place called Moo-Moo's. They had a ton of different available flavours as you can see from the menu below. I got a custard, fudge, and marshmallow shake. When I ordered it I was expecting hot fudge, but it was more like pieces of fudge. It was amazing! Warren tried the dark chocolate Hob Nob (a kind of crunchy biscuit), Zach got battenburg cake (a checkered cake made up of strawberry and lemon cakes with a hard almond frosting), and Jackie tried lemon curd. 

We toured inside the Sheldonian Theatre where the graduation ceremonies and matriculation are held for the university. 

Below is the inside of the theatre, where the ceremonies are held. 

The ceiling is made up of 32 oil on canvas panels originally painted by King Charles II's court painter.  

 The view from the top of the Sheldonian Theatre. 

Below is the outside of Christ Church College. John Locke, William Penn, Christopher Wren (he is best known for St Paul's Cathedral), and Lewis Carroll all attended Christ Church. Scenes from Harry Potter were filmed here. 

Below are photos from inside the Christ Church Cathedral. 

Here is another building on campus. 

All over Oxford's buildings are gargoyles and grotesques. The photos below are all of grotesques (since they don't spout water). 

We stopped into the Natural History Museum to check out the architecture of the building (and Warren got to see a Dodo bird skeleton). 

This next photo is just a hotel in Oxford but the outside looked so cool!