Oxford Trip - Sat 17 July 2004

 

Oxford - 'the city of dreaming spires.'   The University of Oxford is made up of more than 35 colleges, and we visited several.   Some of them are over 700 years old.

Thank you for your photos, Piotr and Elchin!

Did you know? Oxford has educated 25 British Prime Ministers, including Tony Blair, and the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton.

 

 

At Christchurch College.  Left: Wojtek and Piotr at Christchurch College.  Right:  Agustin, Elchin, Carlos and Pedro.

 

 

 

The impressive Radcliffe Camera, built in 1749 as a library for science and medicine.

 

 

 

The Bodleian Library, founded in 1598.  This is the largest academic library in the world.

 

 

 

It has 6 million books and 1 million maps.  Most of them are kept underground in tunnels that total 130km in length!.

 

 

 

What good luck!  We saw some graduates in their traditional gowns, ready for their graduation ceremony.  (That's the photo on the left, not the right!)

 

 

 

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