Oxford: The Ultimate College Town

I am increasingly growing more and more in love with UCL's student union. Why? because they let me do things for cheap. You can organize different events and day trips all at discounted rates but its not like a school field trip where they hold your hand through a boring tour. Nope, they just drop you off and let you do as you please.

Yesterday, some friends and I went on our first day trip through the union to Oxford. As is obvious, Oxford is home to the University of Oxford, but what a lot of people don't know is that University of Oxford is composed of about 38 colleges and Oxford the city has I think 2 other completely separate schools. Thats why its the ultimate college town- it's insane how many colleges they can fit into such a small area.

Oxford is absolutely beautiful, though. The architecture is all intricate and historical and my camera is now probably overheated from taking pictures of things that seemed important but in reality I had no idea what most of them were.

While in Oxford we climbed a tour to check out the view of the city, roamed in to several churches, ate at the cutest pub, tried to check out as much of the university we could without being charged, checked out some museums, and bought the comfiest Oxford rugby shirt that I've pretty much been wearing since.

Here are some highlights:

View of Oxford from above

Covered Market and Camera Building (because of the circular shape)

My new pet at the natural history museum

Left: Christs Church at Oxford

Center: Us in front of the palace? castle? school? who knows

Right: FOOTBALL!

If only it was warm enough I could have rented a bike and the day would have been even better.

And the good thing was I wasn't really sick at all the whole time. I started getting sick monday night, then I'm pretty sure I was dying tuesday through most of thursday, but Thursday night, Friday, and most of Saturday I was fine which worked out great, but by the time I got home Saturday, death struck again and its still continuing.

But at least that gave me some bed/computer time to upload pictures, write this blog post and plan everywhere I want to travel. Want a list of everywhere I want to go, many of which I've already planned/started to plan? Ok, great! (hehe sorry if your answer was no)

Within UK

-stonehenge

-Edinburgh, Scotland

-Brighton

-Cardiff, Wales

-Bath

-Dublin, Ireland (ok not part of the UK but you know what I mean)

And elsewhere

-Paris

-Madrid

-Barcelona

-Italy (like everywhere)

-Porto

-Copenhagen

-Bruges

-Amsterdam

-Swiss Alps

I realize this leaves out a ton of places including pretty much all Eastern Europe but I don't want to eat up my entire savings account so all start with Western and if money/time allows continue onward.

Any other suggestions??? Let me know!

Alright now back to moping on my bed and waiting for Funny Face to download :)