oxford. just so-so

oxford- 6 june 2011.

bought the train tickets months before this date and i got it at a very very cheap price. i only paid 8gbp for one way. if i was to buy a ticket on my travelling day at the station, i would have to fork out around 20gbp. phew!

the journey from paddington station was about an hour and we reached there slightly before 11a.m.
we headed straight to the tourist information centre to book ourselves a guided walking tour. i would be walking blindly without direction without the guide i am sure.
somehow at the back of my mind, i was still thinking about the trip to cambridge i took while studying in the uk. i prefer cambridge more.i think the buildings in cambridge are not as old as those in oxford and the streets wider.

anyway, before the walking tour started, i headed to turf tavern, a place highly recommended in trip advisor and i was not letdown. phew! it was a small little place with outdoor seatings and the food was good. love the fish and chips so much and the dark chocolate dessert.

here are the few places we went to in the walk.

wadham college and its chapel.


st mary's church.

bodleian library.

these are the places we did not enter. you can punt in oxford and of course in cambridge. but the river here did not attact me to go unlike those in cambridge. hmmh...am i bias? i should not. the last time i was in cambridge was more than 10 years ago. who knows what it has become now.

wadham college chapel.

our tour ended before 3p.m. and we walked around the main street before it was time to go back at 6p.m. they went shopping at marks and spencer again while i only browsed the stored. i was saving all the shopping for bicester village the next day. so if you want to know what other things i bought in my trip, stay tune.