Christ Church one of 38 colleges of the University of Oxford. It’s also probably one of the most famous buildings in Oxford. Being a Harry Potter fan, it was very exciting to be able to visit the Great Dining Hall of Christ Church. It was the inspiration for the dining hall in Hogwarts castle in the Harry Potter movies.
[Read more…]Exploring the historic city of Oxford, England
After spending a day exploring Cambridge, we drove 2 hours southwest towards Oxford. The traffic on the motor way between the two cities was quite bad that evening. We didn’t make it into Oxford until quite late at night. We headed straight to a local English pub for some pub grub for dinner and called it a night.
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After spending 2 weeks driving around and exploring Iceland, it was time to head back into civilisation. I didn’t capture many photos on our last day in Iceland before we flew out. We spent the day slowly driving back to Reykjavík. We checked out a couple of lesser known locations in the morning and spent the afternoon at the Blue Lagoon. Unfortunately for us, the hot water system broke down and the lines to check into the lagoon was massive. We did eventually make it in but the water was tepid in certain areas of the lagoon. I can see the appeal of the lagoon. The blue colour was very cool. But it was probably one of the most touristy activities in Iceland. We got up very early in the morning to make it for our morning flight back to London. We picked up our rental car at Heathrow airport, drove up to Cambridge and stayed the night.
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