Earlier this month I wrote about my day trip to Oxford with my English friend Gill Shaw. I featured some of the grotesques we saw peering down from medieval buildings. Now I’d like to show you some of the other sites we encountered on a double-decker tour bus and on foot. Above, centuries-old buildings line the streets.
Martyrs’ Memorial commemorates the 16th-century Oxford Martyrs
Waterways provide a beautiful backdrop for the many walking trails.
There are always lots of bicycles in a university city.
Punt boats.
Residential streets are just as beautiful in their own way as the more ornate universities and cathedrals.
Businesses cater to locals, students and tourists alike.
Having visited both Oxford and Cambridge, I much prefer Oxford, as a tourist and as a Morse/Lewis/Hathaway fan
Great pictures of Oxford. We went to Oxford for a day on our trip to England 3 years ago. A wonderful city to wander around in. We had dinner at the Crown pub, supposedly a place Shakespeare would stay at on trips between London and Stratford. Thanks for the memories.
Great post of a beautiful city! Thanks, Marilyn.
Your scenes of Broad Street are very familiar to me, my address when I visit Oxford. The photo at top shows the buildings that were the view from my top-floor window in May, the one near the bottom the whole block with my hotel, The Buttery, just past the orange buildings. And the familiar bicycle scene at the station. One of my favorite places and why I return to that street as often as I can manage. Very nice, thanks.