Fischberg Flashback 24: Ivory Towers

Note: this was originally posted to Fisch and Chips on November 29, 2013.  Along with the usual grammatical cleanup, I've added captions to some of the photos.

I leave England in sixteen days.

I have three papers due in two weeks.

I still have places I want to see for my Criminal Justice Pilgrimage.

My time abroad is coming to a close-time for me to step it up!

Alright, that’s enough nervousness for one post.  Let’s talk about today’s adventure!

Today, the AHA group and I traveled by bus to Oxford, home of the massive Oxford University, a collection of thirty-nine different colleges, all sharing considerable prestige (It’s the oldest university in the English-speaking world.).  It’s also where several scenes in the Harry Potter movies were filmed (guess which aspect was more interesting for a good deal of the group).  The whole day was one big whirlwind of museums, libraries, chapels (more beautiful church décor!), stairs (more climbing!), and potato crisps.  It would take too long if I tried to elaborate on everything, so here’s a large collection of pictures.  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.  Enjoy this gratuitous antique university porn, and try to guess which of these settings are where Harry Potter was filmed!

Christ Church College

Christ Church College dining hall

Chirst Church Cathedral

The Radcliffe Camera, a private library at the center of campus

Pitt Rivers Museum

Pitt Rivers anthropology exhibit

Ashmolean Museum

interior of Bodleian Library

I hope that was fun.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to buckle down and get to work.  These papers aren’t going to write themselves, and I still want to take a trip to Tyburn…

Happy 3rd night of Hanukkah!

Modern reflections:

I don't remember much of Oxford aside from the gorgeous architecture/scenery.  This post was mostly an excuse to show off the photos I took.

For those curious, I loosely based the title of this post off the British sitcom Fawlty Towers.  A lot of my blog post titles are very loosely based off of really obscure pop culture references.  My posts' contents are meant to entertain/inform you, dear reader, but my posts' titles are often a challenge to myself in clever creativity.