After arriving back in Norwich at 1:00 am after the Stonehenge tour, I headed out 24 hours later for a "day trip" to Oxford. My friend Silvia was determined to go before we left England and it was a place I had been interested to visit, so realizing how little time we had left we decided, what the heck, lets just do it. We caught the National Express coach from Norwich at 1:50 am and after changing buses at Stansted airport (a place where I have passed far too many
hours in the middle of the night) we arrived in London where we had to catch another coach. We were in Oxford before 8:00 am and it was so strange seeing the city as quiet and empty as it was. We were able to see aspects most tourists wouldn't though, such as the Oxford crew teams practicing on the river and the punters preparing their boats for the day. It was fun wandering the city and watching it slowly come to life. We visited the botanical gardens there and several museums. We went to the famous Christ Church College where John Locke, Lewis Carroll and so many others have graduated from, but is now so frequently visited since the Harry Potter movies were filmed there. Though we were limited to specific areas, it was pretty walking through the courtyard, the cathedral, and the d
ining hall. Too bad the dining commons at UMass do not even slightly resemble those at Oxford with their long, fancily set tables, stained glass windows, and massive portraits of past deans, graduates, and benefactors. We also walked through some of the other campus like Trinity College and
Magdelen College. It was fun just wandering around in and out of stores and past renowned sights like the Bodleian Library which holds a copy of
every book ever published in the UK, the unusually shaped Sheldonian Theatre, and the knockoff Venice style Bridge of Sighs. Exhausted, we left around 7:00 and arrived back in Norwich at midnight. Although we spent just as much time traveling as we did exploring Oxford, it was a fun day and I'm glad I was able to go before leaving England.
After arriving back in Norwich at 1:00 am after the Stonehenge tour, I headed out 24 hours later for a "day trip" to Oxford. My friend Silvia was determined to go before we left England and it was a place I had been interested to visit, so realizing how little time we had left we decided, what the heck, lets just do it. We caught the National Express coach from Norwich at 1:50 am and after changing buses at Stansted airport (a place where I have passed far too many 
hours in the middle of the night) we arrived in London where we had to catch another coach. We were in Oxford before 8:00 am and it was so strange seeing the city as quiet and empty as it was. We were able to see aspects most tourists wouldn't though, such as the Oxford crew teams practicing on the river and the punters preparing their boats for the day. It was fun wandering the city and watching it slowly come to life. We visited the botanical gardens there and several museums. We went to the famous Christ Church College where John Locke, Lewis Carroll and so many others have graduated from, but is now so frequently visited since the Harry Potter movies were filmed there. Though we were limited to specific areas, it was pretty walking through the courtyard, the cathedral, and the d
ining hall. Too bad the dining commons at UMass do not even slightly resemble those at Oxford with their long, fancily set tables, stained glass windows, and massive portraits of past deans, graduates, and benefactors. We also walked through some of the other campus like Trinity College and 
Magdelen College. It was fun just wandering around in and out of stores and past renowned sights like the Bodleian Library which holds a copy of every book ever published in the UK, the unusually shaped Sheldonian Theatre, and the knockoff Venice style Bridge of Sighs. Exhausted, we left around 7:00 and arrived back in Norwich at midnight. Although we spent just as much time traveling as we did exploring Oxford, it was a fun day and I'm glad I was able to go before leaving England.
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